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An Indianapolis man was shot and killed in his home on the city's east side at about 6:30 p.m. Wednesday. Police believe Jared Wathen, 27, was shot in his house in the 3200 block of Elmhurst Drive and tried to get help from neighbors before he died. Several gunshots were reported by neighbors and a dark-colored vehicle was spotted leaving the scene traveling south on Elmhurst Drive.
 

A 15-year-old girl was attacked at her bus stop at about 7 a.m. Thursday near the corner of Pleasant Run Parkway and Le Grand Avenue on the south side of Indianapolis. According to Indianapolis Public Schools, a male grabbed her around her stomach and tried to drag her off. During the struggle, the girl’s bus arrived and the driver began honking the horn, scaring the attacker off. The assailant grabbed the girl’s cell phone during the attack and kept it. The girl was shaken up, but not injured.
 

Firefighters extinguishing a car fire Thursday morning on the northeast side of Indianapolis discovered a body inside the vehicle. Investigators are trying to figure out whether the person died before or after the fire, which occurred at about 8 a.m. in an alley in the 3000 block of North Gale Street. Neighbors said they had never seen the car before and speculated someone was trying to dump the body in their neighborhood.

A teen-age boy in handcuffs escaped from Indiana State Police on the east side of Indianapolis late Tuesday night. A trooper pulled the teen over on Interstate 465 near the Shadeland Avenue exit about 10:30 p.m. The trooper found some drugs in the car and put handcuffs on the 17-year-old. The teen slipped away from the trooper and ran off. Police searched for the boy, but were unable to find him, however, they have his name and address.
 

Police have arrested three people in connection with the double homicide of Keya Prince and Stephen Streeter, who were shot to death in their Anderson home on Nov. 29. Just two hours after 24-year-old Prince and 25-year-old Streeter were laid to rest Tuesday, police raided a house in the 2100 block of Arrow Avenue and detained six people. Three of them, Na-Son D. Smith, 18; Martez Brown, 16; and Jacob Fuller, 15; were each charged with two counts of murder, according to the Anderson Herald Bulletin.
 

Indianapolis police are investigating the death of a 2-year-old girl who died at Methodist Hospital early Wednesday morning of unknown causes. Police were called to the child's home in the 200 block of Parkview Avenue on the near-east side just before midnight Tuesday because the girl had stopped breathing. The child's aunt, Irene Glenn, said the child had fallen and hit her head earlier in the day. An autopsy scheduled for Wednesday or early Thursday morning will determine an exact cause of death.  
 

Dec. 12
Warren Performing Arts Center
Add up the ages of any four of the Indianapolis Children's Choir singers and you may not reach the number of years that the Lettermen have been singing. For 50 years, various iterations of the group have been harmonizing, led by Tony Butala, who is still a part of the trio. Holiday songs are the focus this time, with the 80-member ICC in support. For more details, click here.