After Indiana legislation passed regarding less regulated gun laws in 2022, accidental shootings rose, with non-fatal shootings amongst youth steadily climbing.
Police at my door... (Sent at 5:52 p.m. on July 14). This would be the last text message Tanna Drye would receive from her 25-year-old son. The mother would then video chat with him while officers with the Indiana Crime Guns Task Force surrounded his Linwood Manor apartment on the city's east side.
The dream started with a sickly mother at an Indianapolis apartment complex known for trouble. Carl King decided early on that nursing was going to be his career path. But the reality was hard to realize growing up inside these infamous apartments within the Martindale-Brightwood neighborhood.
A neighbor thought it odd that he hadn't seen the couple leave their house that morning. The pair — both in their 70s — was often seen walking the narrow street in the tree-lined neighborhood of single-family homes after retiring from being educators.
Indiana’s 28th Regiment United States Colored Troops was the state’s only all-Black regiment to fight in the American Civil War. They became part of the Union troops that traveled down to Galveston, Texas to free enslaved African Americans on June 19, 1865.
It's been almost seven years since Catherine Peters received the phone call that her only siblings was gone. Not only was he dead, but her little brother had been killed in Indianapolis. She couldn't wrap her head around the fact that someone would want to harm him.
Back-to-back calls filed into Xiyya Jackson's cellphone while she was sleeping at her Tennessee home. Family and Indianapolis police started calling about 1:44 a.m. July 5 because they needed to deliver heartbreaking news: her 16-year-old son was gone. This would be her third son she has lost to gun violence.
The Spanish phrase “mejorar la raza,” improve the race, is a Latin American concept used to imply that one should marry or have children with a lighter skinned or white person.