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Third victim dies in Saturday shooting on Indy's north side

Posted at 1:56 AM, Sep 17, 2016
and last updated 2016-09-22 11:43:09-04

INDIANAPOLIS -- Another person has died after being shot on a particularly violent Saturday morning, Indianapolis police confirmed.

Elishama Pierre, 24, was shot just before 1 a.m. Saturday in the 7200 block of North Michigan Road at a Shell gas station.

He was taken to St. Vincent Hospital in serious condition and died Wednesday at the hospital.

Pierre is the third person to die as a result of shootings in just a few short hours early Saturday morning.

Police arrived shortly after 12:30 a.m. on Saturday in the 2000 block of W. 76th Street to find an injured man with a gunshot wound to the hand. He was transported to the hospital as stable. 

Officers then found a second man who was unresponsive and suffering from at least one gunshot wound. Medical personnel pronounced him dead at the scene. 

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Soon after responding to Pierre at the Shell gas station, officers returned to West 76th Streeet and discovered a person lying in a parking lot. He was pronounced dead by medical personnel.

The victims killed in the fatal shootings were identified Monday as Antonio Kelley and Derrius Brandon, both 23.

Police tell Call 6 Investigates they are investigating the possibility that the shootings are connected. 

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