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Three children jumped into the arms of neighbors and another was pulled unconscious through a second-story window after a fire swept through a unit at Postbrook East Apartments Sunday night.
The four kids were taken to Riley Children s Hospital, where one was in critical condition, according to the Indianapolis Fire Department. The other three children were in good condition. Their ages have not been released.
Firefighters were dispatched at 6:47 p.m. to the apartment in the 4000 block of Windhill Drive. Fifteen IFD units were on scene, as well as three units from Lawrence.
IFD said a teenager, who was inside when the fire started, told firefighters his mother had been cooking on the stove but left the apartment. The teen had been asleep upstairs.
One of Two Murdered Women ID’d, Police Ask for Help
INDIANAPOLIS–Two women were shot and killed at an apartment complex near Post Rd. and 38th St., early Monday. One of those women was Ashanti Robinson, 21, said Marion County Coroner Alfie Ballew.
The other woman’s identity is being withheld from the public until her family is notified.
“Community is essential to us being able to identify perpetrators in these types of offenses and get these individuals off the streets,” said Lt. Shane Foley, with the Indianapolis Metro Police Dept.
Police were called just after midnight. When they got to the Postbrook East Apartments at 40th and Cordell Street, they found the two women shot outside the apartments.