Police Search For Clues After Couple Killed In Home

INDIANAPOLIS -- Police are trying to determine who fatally shot a man and a woman in a bedroom early Wednesday on the city's west side.

Derrick Jones, 26, and his girlfriend, Tiffany Farral, 28, were shot in a home in the 200 block of North Reisner Street just after midnight. Police said the shooting might have happened as the couple slept.

Jones died at the scene of the shooting. Farral died later at Methodist Hospital.

Police said Farral's three children, a 10-year-old girl, 6-year-old boy and 4-year-old girl, were inside the home when the shootings happened, but they weren't hurt, RTV6's Jack Rinehart reported.

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Man, Woman Killed In Shooting At Home

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Police said Farral's 10-year-old daughter helped to call 911. The girl told a dispatcher that her mother had yelled for her after being shot.

Police said it appeared that whoever fired the shots broke into the home and went directly to the bedroom. They said they don't believe robbery was a motive, noting they've found no evidence that anything was stolen.

"My wife woke me up and said she thought she heard shots or fireworks," neighbor Victor Ingalls said. "I don't like to hear about people getting killed, but I don't know them."

Indianapolis police Detective Tom Lehn said shootings such as this one are becoming too common in some of the city's neighborhoods.

"This neighborhood and, it seems like, every other neighborhood in the inner-city of Indianapolis -- you just have these problems that continue," Lehn said.

The children have been placed in the care of relatives. Police said they didn't know why the shooting happened.

Police asked anyone with information to call Crime Stoppers of Central Indiana at (317) 262-8477.