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Investigators are interviewing witnesses to find out more about a Wednesday night shooting death on the near-northeast side of Indianapolis. About 11 p.m., officers found 38-year-old Leon Finisson mortally wounded inside a home in the 3000 block of Euclid Avenue, near New York Street. He was pronounced dead at Wishard Memorial Hospital.

Indianapolis Metropolitan Police detectives are trying to track down a robber who beat two men with a baseball bat and robbed them at about 1:30 a.m. Thursday. Investigators say the victims were attacked in the Spanish Oaks Apartments near 38th Street and Mitthoeffer Road. Neither had life-threatening injuries.

Indianapolis Fire Department arson teams are investigating a Wednesday night fire that killed a women and her 2-year-old son. One firefighter and two residents also were injured in the blaze at Nottingham Village Apartments on the city’s east side. Fire crews were dispatched to the 2100 block of Sussex Lane at 9:15 p.m. after multiple calls reporting that residents were trapped inside an apartment and on third-floor balconies. Three people, including a pregnant woman, jumped from a balcony and another four were rescued by firefighters using a ladder truck. A crew searching the building found the mother and child unconscious in their water-filled bathtub. They died on the way to the hospital. Fox59 will have more at 4 p.m.