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Victim critical in Butler-Tarkington Neighborhood shooting

Posted at 7:36 PM, Aug 30, 2016
and last updated 2016-08-31 00:24:50-04

INDIANAPOLIS -- A victim was left in critical condition Tuesday night by a shooting on the south side of the Butler-Tarkington Neighborhood.

The shooting happened shortly after 7:00 p.m. near the intersection of Rookwood and Bernard Avenue. The area is located between 38th Street and Butler University's campus, and is one that has been a major target of the Indianapolis Ten Point Coalition after four people were killed in the neighborhood last year.

Police arrived on scene to find a person shot and in critical condition.

Witnesses reported a possible suspect riding away from the area on a bicycle.

The intersection is just three blocks from the sites where 20-year-old Marshawn Frazier and 19-year-old Malik Perry were killed last year. Butler-Tarkington also saw the shooting deaths of 32-year-old Clarence "Wade" Havvard and 10-year-old Deshaun Swanson in 2015. Those murders remain unsolved.

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