Officials ID second woman killed in shooting on northeast side of Indianapolis early Monday Lawrence Andrea, Indianapolis Star
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Indianapolis police are investigating after two women were found shot to death on the city s northeast side early Monday.
Officers with the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department responded to multiple reports of shots fired in the 4000 block of Cordell Street near 41st Street and east of Post Road just after midnight.
Arriving officers and emergency medical personnel found two women suffering from apparent gunshot wounds on a walkway in an apartment complex. They were pronounced dead at the scene, according to IMPD Lieutenant Shane Foley.
Officials ID second woman killed in shooting on northeast side of Indianapolis early Monday Lawrence Andrea, Indianapolis Star
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: This story was updated to identify the victims in the Monday shooting.
Indianapolis police are investigating after two women were found shot to death on the city s northeast side early Monday.
Officers with the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department responded to multiple reports of shots fired in the 4000 block of Cordell Street near 41st Street and east of Post Road just after midnight.
Arriving officers and emergency medical personnel found two women suffering from apparent gunshot wounds on a walkway in an apartment complex. They were pronounced dead at the scene, according to IMPD Lieutenant Shane Foley.
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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.
Brownwood News –
February is Black History Month. Brownwoodnews.com will run a series of articles this month about some of the early Black leaders in Brown County. This is the second in the series.
Most folks in Brown County are familiar with the Hardin School building on Hall Street, adjacent to Cecil Holman Park and the Bennie Houston Community Center, but are not so familiar with the man for whom the school was named.
Rufus Forley Hardin was born in slavery in August, 1859, in Kaufman County, southeast of Dallas. His formal education began at the age of 13 in Kaufman county, but at the age of 17 he moved north to Kansas and worked cattle. He attended school during his eight months in Kansas, then moved back to Texas and continued his education in Van Zandt county, also southeast of Dallas.