INDIANAPOLIS -- A man is dead after showing up at an Indianapolis hospital to be treated for a gunshot wound Sunday afternoon.
Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department officers say the man showed up at the Community North Hospital just before 8 p.m. and was admitted in critical condition.
He died a short time later. The man has been identified as James Slaughter, 20, according to the Marion County Coroner's office. His death has been ruled a homicide.
Police believe the shooting happened in the area of Biscayne Road and Bel Air Drive but the circumstances surrounding it remain under investigation.
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