Indianapolis, IN
IMPD: Man dies in hit-and-run after car swerves onto sidewalk
by: Daja Stowe and Ashley Fowler
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INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — A person is lifeless after a hit-and-run Saturday night on town’s close to north facet and his demise was being investigated as a murder, the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Division says.
At 4:14 p.m. Saturday, IMPD was dispatched to a report of a pedestrian struck at West sixteenth Avenue at Capitol Avenue and positioned a person simply east of the intersection. The hit-and-run occurred subsequent to the development of the brand new Indiana Well being Methodist Hospital.
Medics arrived and pronounced the person lifeless on the scene.
“Preliminary info leads detectives to consider a automobile which was touring westbound within the eastbound lanes deliberately swerved up onto the sidewalk and struck an grownup male earlier than returning to the westbound lanes and fleeing the scene,” IMPD stated in an announcement late Saturday.
The identify of the person has not been launched and police haven’t recognized any doable suspects.
Anybody with info is requested to contact Detective Tony Johnson on the IMPD Murder Workplace at 317-327-3475 or by e-mail.