Jan 16, 2025
INDIANAPOLIS - A juvenile is recovering Thursday after being shot overnight on Indy's north side. The shooting is just the latest in a string of incidents in central Indiana involving juveniles and guns. FOX59/CBS4's Jenny Dreasler spoke to youth advocates across the state and why they fear this is a troubling sign for the year ahead.  Juvenile injured after shots fired into north side apartment "It's been crazy, we've had a shooting each week and we're only two weeks in," said Aaron Smith with youth mentoring group Youngsters to Yungstar in Indy.  It's a stat Smith isn't happy to see. The Circle City started off 2025 with juveniles involved in multiple instances of gun violence. The first, a 14-year-old girl, was shot and killed over the weekend in the troubled Laurelwood apartments on the city's south side. Then overnight around 3 a.m., another teen was shot in an apartment complex on the city's north side. Another juvenile shot themselves Thursday afternoon at a home on the far east side. According to IMPD, It took until May of last year to record a juvenile homicide. "It's not difficult for a kid to get a firearm anymore. Parents these days are not secure with their firearms. A lot of this stems from the parents. This is a generational thing, said Smith. The violence isn't limited to Indy. Anderson has seen similar violence already this year too. On Tuesday night, an 18-year-old was shot while riding in a car and another car pulled up alongside and opened fire. He was last said to be in serious condition. It's an incident Jason Fullington with the Madison County hand-up initiative said is troubling. "It seems to come back really strong here in recent history. I'm not sure what's going on and why there's so much anger and animosity, but there has been so much this winter. And it's getting really bad," said Fullington. Family of 14-year-old girl seeks answers after teen killed on Indy’s south side Both Smith and Fullington hope this trend of violence isn't a sign of what's to come for the new year. "I hope that Indianapolis can come together and we can direct these kids' attention somewhere else," said Smith. "We need to be able to articulate that to those people in such ways that they would be deterred from doing these crimes in the first place," said Fullington.
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