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Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department is working on the scene on Sunday, January 24, 2021 in Indianapolis where five people, including a pregnant woman, were shot dead.
Justin L. Mack / The Indianapolis Star via AP
Five people and an unborn child were killed early Sunday morning in a mass shooting inside a home in Indianapolis, a report said.
A young man was also found wounded in what according to investigators is a targeted attack committed by several gunmen around 4 a.m., the Indianapolis Star reported.
“This morning, one of more individuals committed an act of evil in our city,” Indianapolis Mayor Joe Hogsett was quoted as saying at a news conference later Sunday.
“What happened this morning was not a simple act of violence … what happened this morning was a mass murder,” the mayor said.
Randal Taylor, chief of the Indianapolis Metro Police, said the violence was Indianapolis’ “largest mass casualty shooting” in more than a decade, the report said.
Police did not immediately disclose a possible motive for the murder.