Mary Castle School Shooter Believed Dead After Chase Into Illinois
TERRE HAUTE, Ind. A man wanted in the shooting of a parent outside an elementary school in Indianapolis is believed to be dead after a police chase near Terre Haute.
IMPD detectives say Brandon Shockley was the man who shot the parent at Mary Castle Elementary School. Detectives tracked down a car similar to one that Shockley used to get away on westbound I-70 in Terre Haute.
The driver refused to stop and tried to flee police, used stop sticks to try to bring the car to a stop. The driver kept going at slower speeds into Illinois after hitting stop sticks and eventually went off into a ditch.
May 3, 2021 / 02:10 PM EST
INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) An early learning center and an elementary school in Lawrence Township schools will be closed to students on Monday after a domestic-related shooting on school property, the district said Sunday.
In a letter to district families, Superintendent Shawn Smith said “the decision of one person shook the community,” in reference to a Friday afternoon shooting in the parking lot of the Early Learning Center at Mary Castle, which shares a campus with Mary Castle Elementary School.
Smith said “an estranged family member” came to the campus “with the sole purpose of taking the life of the mother of a young child receiving special services.” Police on Friday said one person was found with a gunshot wound and taken to a hospital in critical condition.