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According to the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department, just before 7 a.m., officers were called to the 500 block of Parker Avenue on the report of shots fired. When officers arrived on the scene, they located a man and woman with injuries consistent with gunshot wounds in a shed.
Both victims were transported to an area hospital in critical condition, police said. The male victim was ultimately pronounced dead at the hospital. The Marion County Coroner’s Office identified the man as 44-year-old Simeon Jones.
”I was asleep but I heard very loud pops,” neighbor Matthew Coffman said of what he knew about the shooting. “I heard I think three or four loud pops in a row, and then there was a pause for about two seconds, and then two more deliberate pops that were quick in sequence.”
Eight hours after the shooting occurred, forensic crime technicians and homicide detectives were still at the scene collecting evidence in the backyard as visitors entered the home that sits on the same property as the shed the victims were found in.
”There’s always stuff going on in the backyard,” said an anonymous woman who complained to the Marion County Public Health Department last winter that a disabled man was living in a shed behind the home in question. “If you go in the front, it seems like a quiet house. All the stuff is going on back here in the shed and in the alley.
”All winter long there were people living back there. I thought it was the cold that killed the person living there in the wheelchair. All I know is that they burn trash and stuff to keep warm.”
The address tied to Sunday’s shooting was the site of a death investigation in January and a shots fired incident in April.
”There were gunshots out here,” an anonymous neighbor said. “When I came and talked to the police about it, they said that the people who shot the guns, they were in a vehicle that was at this house here. They threw the gun out the car and they fled the scene.”
Neighbors also said they have seen medical response teams at the house administering Narcan to drug users who overdosed.
”A house that’s covered up like that with a blue tarp,” Coffman said. “And I used to live near the Outlaws house years ago, and that’s something that they did when they prevented any way from looking into from the outside, and that’s usually an indicator that that is a drug house.
”I guess there was probably a drug house. That’s usually where the crime is. People who are involved in that stuff, they get hurt. And there’s people around here just kind of living, and those people usually aren’t involved, usually they’re safe.”
One anonymous neighbor said she’s asked herself for several months if it would take a homicide to get anyone’s attention on the house down the block.
“Absolutely,” she said. “And now I’m wondering if that will do it.
“Over here, in this area specifically, we’re overlooked, and it’s because we don’t bring in the money that the other parts of the city are bringing in. Everything’s falling apart over here. I just hope they do something about it.”
IMPD has indicated that it is still actively investigating the shooting that occurred on Parker Avenue Sunday morning. Police are encouraging those with information on the shooting to contact Gregory Taylor by calling the IMPD Homicide Office at (317) 327-3475 or emailing Gregory.Taylor2@indy.gov.
Alternatively, tipsters who wish to remain anonymous can contact Crime Stoppers of Central Indiana by calling (317) 262-8477, using the P3Tips mobile app or visiting www.CrimeTips.org.
This is a developing story. Check back for updates.
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