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A registered sex offender was captured early Tuesday morning after a police chase on the southeast side of Indianapolis. Police expected to arrest Shawn Doan, 23, outside a Beech Grove business about 11:30 p.m. Monday because of several felony sex-offender registry violations. When he saw police, he fled the scene in his Honda Accord, leading them through neighborhoods in the Fountain Square area. Doan eventually ran over the stop sticks, lost control and crashed into bushes at a bank branch near Raymond and Shelby streets. He tried to hide in a nearby house, but was chased down by a police dog.
 

Indianapolis firefighters responded to another suspicious house fire near downtown Indianapolis on Wednesday morning, a day after the city was struck by 10 other fires, including seven confirmed as arson. Wednesday morning’s blaze heavily damaged a vacant home in the Fountain Square area about 6:35 a.m. Investigators suspect arson. Officials say they believe at least three of Tuesday’s fires were set by the same person. Police say they have identified at least two "persons of interest." A woman was killed and her son critically injured in one of the fires.

Indianapolis police arrested a robbery suspect on the city's southeast side after a SWAT situation Thursday afternoon. SWAT was called to a home near State and Pleasant streets, east of the Fountain Square area, following a robbery at a Church's Chicken restaurant. Neighbors said they saw a young man running through the neighborhood with money flying out of his backpack. Police blocked off part of the neighborhood. About an hour later, the suspect surrendered. He is now in police custody.
 

A Fountain Square-area woman is dead, her husband under arrest and their daughter injured following a domestic dispute Sunday afternoon. Bobbie Jo Schaefer, 41, was stabbed to death inside a home in the 1200 block of Evison Street. Kenneth Schaefer, 56, was listed in serious condition with self-inflicted stab wounds. One of the couple’s daughters, a 15-year-old, received superficial stab wounds reportedly suffered while trying to fight off the attack on her mother. Family members said the couple had been married 23 years.