Key Takeaways
- A woman shot a man who hit her with his car in Indianapolis early Monday morning.
- Police arrested the man on preliminary charges of domestic battery with a deadly weapon.
- The woman was released after consultation with the Marion County Prosecutor’s Office, indicating she acted in self-defense.
- The relationship between the woman and the man remains unclear, but the charge suggests a non-stranger interaction.
- Police believe the incident was isolated and have not released the identities of either party.
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INDIANAPOLIS, IN — A woman who police say was hit by a man’s car on the east side of Indianapolis early Monday morning shot him, and after a consultation with the Marion County Prosecutor’s Office, she was the one released while he went to jail.
According to the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department, as reported by WTHR, officers responded to the 2200 block of North Shadeland Avenue, near East 21st Street, on a report of a person shot around 7:15 a.m. Monday, Sept. 28. They found a man with a gunshot wound. IMPD said he was in stable condition.
Police said the shooter was a woman. She was detained at the scene. She was later released following a consultation with the Marion County Prosecutor’s Office because, according to police, the man hit her with a car before she fired.
Police have not released either person’s name, and they have not described the sequence in any more detail than that. What they did do is charge the man. IMPD aggravated assault detectives arrested him on a preliminary charge of domestic battery with a deadly weapon.
That charge tells you how investigators read the car. A vehicle driven into a person is a deadly weapon, and the preliminary charge names it as one. A woman who has just been struck by a car has no way of knowing whether the driver is finished, and she has no realistic way to outrun him if he is not.
The word “domestic” in that charge matters too. Police did not describe the relationship between the two, but the charge designation suggests this was not a stranger encounter. The mindset you carry with has to account for that. The threat is as likely to arrive in a car you recognize as from someone you have never seen before, and the decision to act does not get easier because you know the person behind the wheel.
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The man’s charge is preliminary and an allegation, and he is presumed innocent unless convicted. The woman’s release after the prosecutor consult is a strong early signal, but it is not a formal self-defense determination, and no final charging decision has been announced.
Police said they believe the incident was isolated.
