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Indianapolis police are investigating a shooting that killed a man early Friday morning on the city's near northeast side.
Police responded to a report of a domestic disturbance around 12:20 a.m. Sept. 13 at an apartment complex in the 1500 block of Lewis Street, which is just east of East 16th Street and North College Avenue.
When officers arrived, they said they saw shots being fired and a person down on the ground. Medics arrived and pronounced the man dead at the scene.
Later Friday morning, the Marion County Coroner's Office identified the victim as 24-year-old Rayion Lamont Matthews.
13News spoke with Matthews' mother, who did not want to be identified on-camera. She said Matthews was recently released from jail and was trying to turn his life around.
She said Matthews moved to that apartment complex when he was released, and she spoke with him hours before the shooting.
MORE: https://www.wthr.com/article/news/crime/impd-critical-injury-in-shooting-early-friday-morning-crime-shot-wounded/531-28846e15-3f2d-4a45-ad39-364fcf13687a
Indianapolis police are investigating a shooting that killed a man early Friday morning on the city's near northeast side.
Police responded to a report of a domestic disturbance around 12:20 a.m. Sept. 13 at an apartment complex in the 1500 block of Lewis Street, which is just east of East 16th Street and North College Avenue.
When officers arrived, they said they saw shots being fired and a person down on the ground. Medics arrived and pronounced the man dead at the scene.
Later Friday morning, the Marion County Coroner's Office identified the victim as 24-year-old Rayion Lamont Matthews.
13News spoke with Matthews' mother, who did not want to be identified on-camera. She said Matthews was recently released from jail and was trying to turn his life around.
She said Matthews moved to that apartment complex when he was released, and she spoke with him hours before the shooting.
MORE: https://www.wthr.com/article/news/crime/impd-critical-injury-in-shooting-early-friday-morning-crime-shot-wounded/531-28846e15-3f2d-4a45-ad39-364fcf13687a
