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Two people were injured Tuesday night when a car crashed into a shopping center on the city's north side. The driver lost control of his car and rammed into three brick columns outside the center near 65th Street and Keystone Avenue. The car eventually hit a woman sitting on a bench beside one of the columns. Employees of Sahm’s Place restaurant, where the woman, Nikki Davis, works, helped her out of the rubble. Both she and the driver were taken to area hospitals with non-life-threatening injuries. The building didn't suffer major structural damage.

Indianapolis police are investigating a string of car break-ins that took place Tuesday evening at a south-side church. Several women reported to police that their car windows were broken and valuables were taken from cars parked outside the Southview Wesleyan Church on Shelbyville Road, near Emerson Avenue. At least five vehicles were damaged while the women attended an exercise class from 6 p.m. to 7 p.m. Purses, money, gift cards, bank cards, a cell phone and identification cards were taken.

The Marion County prosecutor’s office said Wednesday that a local Kroger employee who fatally shot a robbery suspect will not be charged. Jeremy Atkinson, 26, was shot to death Dec. 26 while trying to rob the Kroger near 71st Street and Georgetown Road. According to witnesses and surveillance video, Atkinson placed an object into the back of a female employee and forced her into an office area where another employee, Levi Elliott, shot him in the face. The prosecutor’s office said it “believes that the shooting was justified to prevent the commission of a forcible felony and based upon Indiana law pertaining to self-defense and defense of others.