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Fight leads to fatal shooting on the east side

Posted at 2:53 PM, Aug 31, 2016
and last updated 2016-09-01 05:34:43-04

INDIANAPOLIS – A man was shot and killed on the east side Wednesday afternoon when a fight spilled out of a house and into the street.

Police were called around 2:30 p.m. to the 3700 block of East Market Street.

They arrived to find 22-year-old Deandre Johnson lying on the sidewalk with a gunshot wound to the back.

He was alert and conscious when police arrived, but quickly passed out and was taken to Eskenazi Hospital, where he was pronounced dead a short time later.

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Police said there was at least one child inside the home at the time the fight broke out.