LAWRENCE, Ind. (WISH) — Surveillance video captured the gunfire Sunday night.

A 38-year-old, Daniel Morales Uribe, and two other people died in a Sunday night shooting at 42nd Street and Post Road.

On Monday, Uribe’s nephew Jonathan Hernandez went to the parking lot where he died. “He was a very loving person. Obviously, he had a tough childhood, and he wanted us to have the best. Most of the time, he really just cared for his kids.”

Hernandez describes Uribe as a hard worker. He worked out of state to provide for his family of five kids and his extended family.

Uribes’s mother also visited the scene of the fatal shooting to process the last few minutes of her son’s life. “When he came to visit he was very caring and loving. He used to hug everybody and when he came he would tell us he loved us and he would be here forever. Obviously not.”

Uribe’s family are making funeral arrangements. They say their focus is on the children Uribe left behind.

However, the family also wanted to see the surveillance videos of the local businesses to see what happened.

Security footage from the supermarket showed multiple shots fired, and people ducking for cover and running inside businesses for safety.

One worker at the nearby laundromat who witnessed the shooting said multiple bullet casings were found in the parking lot. The police confiscated them.

The only thing left was broken glass.

Four months ago, another triple homicide happened just a few blocks north of Sunday night’s crime scene. Power Wilburn lives in the area, and he wasn’t shocked by the violence. “It’s not a surprise to wake up the next day and to hear something happens over in the neighborhood.”

Resident Sharon Elizabeth Chambers said, “God don’t like ugly. God will get the person who did this and the police will get them.”

Deputy Chief Travis Cline of Lawrence Police Department says lot of witnesses were at on the busy intersection. Witnesses told investigators that a vehicle fled southbound on Post Road.

Police encouraged anyone with information to reach out to police at 317-549-6404.

Statement

“I am concerned for everyone impacted by another senseless act of gun violence. I am very grateful to our Lawrence Police Department investigators and our partners at IMPD (Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department) who are working around the clock to solve this crime, and I’m confident they will bring those responsible to justice.”

Lawrence’s Mayor Deb Whitfield, a Democrat

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Maurice Broaddus was a writer by trade and became a middle school librarian by accident.

The award-winning Afrofuturist and sci-fi author once filled in at The Oaks Academy middle school, where he was also a teacher, for the librarian going on maternity leave. The librarian never came back.

“Six, seven years later I’m still covering her maternity leave,” he joked.

But what started as mere chance has become an opportunity to mentor young writers, support artists of color, and restore a historic Indianapolis library that was the first in the city established specifically for Black residents.

“It’s been a lesson in collaboration, a lesson in building relationships, a lesson in dreaming alongside our neighbors,” said Broaddus, who is Black. “Ultimately, what does it look like to restore a space and then it be true to its purpose?”

Broaddus led the project to reopen the Paul Laurence Dunbar Library, established within the now-closed John Hope School No. 26 in 1922, to students at The Oaks Academy Middle School, a private Christian school in the Martindale-Brightwood neighborhood. The library originally existed to serve Black residents in a de facto segregated part of the city. Its restoration after nearly 30 years of disuse will give Oaks students their own library collection, Broaddus said, while memorializing its place in Indianapolis history.

“We are honoring the past, but we’re doing present work,” he said.

The restored library opened last week on the first day of school at The Oaks. Many shelves are still empty — Broaddus is waiting on a major 1,000-book order — but he’s started curating three special collections on the Harlem Renaissance, the Black Arts Movement, and Afrofuturism.

As parents and new students walked through the building for middle school orientation last Tuesday, they lingered around the library. They saw shelves of rich, dark wood, an ornamental copper ceiling, and a working fireplace.

“It looks like a Harry Potter film in here, you know?” one parent said to her child.

“As well it should,” Broaddus said.

The team behind the project worked to pay homage to the original decor and accents of the space, he said. The library stopped operating in 1997, when John Hope School No. 26 of Indianapolis Public Schools shut down.

The Oaks Academy acquired the building in 2015, according to the school website, and currently has around 270 students in grades 6-8.

Before this year, students relied on the Indianapolis Public Library shared interlibrary system and requested books online that were delivered by Broaddus. They can continue to use that system, but now they also have an internal collection to browse.

In addition to aesthetics, Broaddus wants to honor the legacy of the space by ensuring it benefits the community, not just private school students. He said that’s why he established the Mari Evans Residency for Artists and Authors of Color.

The residency, named for the acclaimed Black poet, writer, and Indianapolis resident Mari Evans, will bring in a renowned author for two weeks to meet with students as well as hold a public-facing event, like a lecture.

The public event is important to Broaddus, who cares about earning the neighborhood’s trust. He said some of the themes of the residency grew out of community feedback.

“If I’m over here operating like, ‘Oh, I know what we should do,’ I’m operating no differently than, frankly, any of the white institutions, just with a Black face in front of it,” he said. “I’m literally no more than a colonizer with brown skin at that point.”

During orientation, the students were intrigued with how the restored library space will be used.

Eighth-grader Lazarus Manley said he likes the idea of going to the library after a long day.

“It just feels really cozy to be in, and I’m really excited to use it,” Manley said.

Haley Miller is a summer reporting intern covering education in the Indianapolis area. Contact Haley at hmiller@chalkbeat.org.

It’s Week 1 of the Indiana high school football season, and there’s no dipping our toes in the water. We’ve got some big-time games right off the bat.

Marquee matchups like Cathedral vs. Ben Davis. Westfield vs. Center Grove. Bishop Chatard vs. Brebeuf Jesuit. Just to name a few.

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Below is the full Central Indiana slate:

INDIANAPOLIS-AREA INDIANA HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL WEEK 1 SCHEDULE

Games at 7 p.m., unless noted.

Avon at Lafayette Jeff

Batesville at Triton Central

Bishop Chatard at Brebeuf Jesuit

Bloomington North at Mooresville

Cascade at Indian Creek

Cathedral at Ben Davis

Christel House at Lutheran

Columbus North at Decatur Central

Fishers at North Central

FW Bishop Dwenger at Brownsburg

FW Wayne at Crispus Attucks

Franklin at New Albany

Frankton at Eastern Hancock

Gary West at Washington, 8 p.m.

Gibson Southern at Danville, 8 p.m.

Greencastle at Monrovia

Greenfield-Central at Beech Grove

Greensburg at Shelbyville

Hamilton Heights at Lapel

Hamilton Southeastern at FW Carroll

Heritage Christian vs. Covenant Christian

Homestead at Carmel

Irvington Prep at Faith Christian

Jeffersonville at Whiteland

Kokomo at New Palestine

Lawrence North at Lawrence Central

Martinsville at Bedford North Lawrence

McCutcheon at Guerin Catholic

Mt. Vernon at Noblesville

Park Tudor at Greenwood Christian

Pendleton Heights at Lebanon

Perry Meridian at Franklin Central

Purdue Poly at Shortridge

Roncalli at Southport

Scecina at FW Concordia Lutheran

Seymour at Greenwood

Speedway at South Putnam

Tech at Cardinal Ritter

Terre Haute South at Plainfield

Tindley at Edinburgh

Tri-West at Western

Warren Central at FW Snider

Western Boone at Sheridan

Westfield at Center Grove

Zionsville at Pike