Indianapolis police fatally shoot man with machete

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A man is dead after he was shot by Indianapolis police in the southeast part of the city Wednesday afternoon. Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department Chief Chris Bailey said the man expected a confrontation with officers that would lead to the shooting.

“From the body-worn camera video that I saw, he did an excellent job,” Bailey said of the officer who shot the man. “He tried to give himself some distance, but at the end of the day he had to protect himself and the community and that’s exactly what he did.”

A man lunged at the officer with a machete

Shortly after 3:45 p.m., Indianapolis Metropolitan Police officers were called to the 1400 block of Brookville Way, an industrial park on Brookville Road west of I-465, on a report of a vehicle accident. While officers were en route, the call was updated to a disturbance involving a weapon.

When an officer arrived, a witness stopped him and told him there was a man on the other side of the building with a machete in his hand. As the officer turned the corner in his police vehicle, he encountered a man with a machete.

The officer exited his vehicle and gave the man commands.

“‘Drop the machete! Drop her!’” Deputy Police Chief Tanya Terry said the officer told the man. “The officer attempted to put more distance between himself and the suspect, but the suspect quickly moved toward the officer with the machete in his hand.”

The man was shot.

The officer began rendering aid and the man was taken to a local hospital in critical condition but later died.

The most recent officer-involved shooting:IMPD says driver shot, officer injured after welfare call received at CVS at North Meridian

A domestic situation turned suicide by a police officer

Before officers arrived, police said the suspect intentionally rammed one vehicle into another containing a man and woman he knew. Several cars were damaged in the parking lot where the incident occurred.

Investigators told IndyStar that the man waited for his acquaintances before they exited a building and grounded his vehicle to meet their car.

“The suspect was likely waiting for the victims to leave work before his attack,” Terry said, adding that the suspect was a former employee of a business in the commercial area where the attack occurred.

When the woman got out of the car, the suspect struck her in the head and body with the machete. The man got out of the vehicle and ran to a nearby store to get help. He suffered injuries as a result of the car accident. Both were taken to hospital in stable condition.

A witness also told investigators that the suspect told them that after attacking the victims and before officers arrived, they would witness a police officer commit suicide.

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Previous police shootings in Indianapolis in 2024

The Dec. 4 shooting marks the 14th police shooting in Indianapolis in 2024.

November 14th: A driver was shot and killed by police after striking an officer with an SUV in a CVS parking lot on North Meridian Street. Officers were called to CVS to check on a person in the vehicle before the shooting. The person who was shot and the officer were in stable condition.

Oct. 27: A man who jumped into a woman’s vehicle and held her at gunpoint was in critical but stable condition after being shot by police in Indianapolis. Julius Hill, 25, was shot by veteran officer Joseph Beasley after the woman stopped her car and got out to alert bystanders at the intersection of 11th Street and Kealing Avenue that she was being held hostage. Hill’s family told police that he suffered from schizophrenia.

September 11th: Officers were involved in a shooting while responding to a hostage situation north of Indianapolis. No police officers were injured and the man shot by police was reportedly in stable condition and taken to a local hospital.

August 23rd: What started as a narcotics search warrant ultimately ended with 40-year-old Kentrail Small being shot and killed. At approximately 10:30 a.m., SWAT officers attempted to serve a search warrant at the Park Terrace Motel, 9025 Pendleton Pike, in Lawrence. SWAT forcibly entered the room and a struggle ensued as police attempted to handcuff Small. Police said Small escaped and grabbed a Draco firearm, at which point officers fatally shot him.

July 2nd: While responding to a call about a person shot, police encountered Richard Dale Bures, 86, allegedly pointing a gun at them shortly after 11:30 a.m. in the 5100 block of West Vermont Street, just off North Lynhurst Drive. Bures pointed the gun at officers several times, and two officers fired their weapons. Investigators found a revolver, but no evidence that another person was shot. They also found a note that said the man wanted to commit suicide, police said. Bures survived the encounter and was criminally charged; his case is still pending.

June 25th:Elijah Hakiem Radford, 45, was suspected of shooting a woman before leading police on a multi-mile chase that culminated in Castleton. Body camera footage shows him entering an apartment and holding a knife next to a screaming woman shortly before he was fatally shot.

June 1st: An officer fired his weapon while investigating gunfire downtown around 3:20 a.m. Neither the suspect nor the officer were injured.

May 28th: Jerrett Dwain Gray Jr., 20, was an armed carjacking suspect when he was fatally shot while trying to flee police at the Cavalier Court apartment complex. Two firearms were found where Gray was taken into custody. One firearm was equipped with a machine gun conversion device commonly referred to as a Glock switch.

May 15th: Kelvin Andrew Chandler, 26, who was accused of shooting his roommate, was fatally shot during a “gunfight” with an officer in the 6500 block of Apollo Way. His roommate survived.

May 2nd: Lemar Brandon Qualls, 35, was shot after officers were called about an armed person pointing a gun at people in the 3900 block of Broadway Street, near 38th Street and North College Avenue. According to police, witnesses said Qualls pointed the gun at officers.

March 31st: Luis Duran-Ruano, 31, was killed after a SWAT confrontation on Winston Avenue that began with a call about a man firing shots into the air near West 33rd Street and Georgetown Road.

March 24th: Dominique Lamonte Durham Sr., 37, was fatally shot March 24 in a shootout with off-duty security guards at a nightclub on East Washington Street.

January 24th: Raphael Dekemper, 41, was shot in an officer-involved shootout on Brookside Parkway North Drive.

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