Victim recalls stabbing outside Northwest Side restaurant and lounge

Lina Portman3 weeks ago

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INDIANAPOLIS — IMPD is investigating a series of stabbings on the city's northwest side Monday morning.

“It’s shocking and really scary right now,” one of the victims told WRTV.

Police say officers were called just before 4 a.m. to the 7100 block of Woodland Avenue for a stabbing. Before the stabbing call, police were at the scene for a fight.

WRTV

It's just inside Loop 465 on 71st Street. There, officers located nine people with stab wounds and/or trauma related to the altercation. Three of those nine people were considered to be in critical condition. Four people were treated and released at the scene. According to IMPD, at least one person was arrested. This same person was among the injured and was taken to hospital in critical condition.

“We were just leaving the club, and I saw a group of people next to my friend's car and I walked up to them, and the guy started randomly stabbing me without any questions, I didn't “I have nothing with him,” the victim said.

WRTV

The victim tells WRTV she was stabbed six times.

“I think conflict resolution is a skill that we don't practice often,” Cortnee Yarbrough, said the director of strategic prevention at the Indy Public Safety Foundation.

Yarbrough, of the Indy Public Safety Foundation, says that instead of reacting instantly to a situation, people just need to take a minute and think before using violence to solve a problem.

“Can I just take a hair for a second to think about ways I could still feel these feelings, but in a way that is safer for me and my community,” Yarbrough said.

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The Pike Fire Department says Miami Gardens is now closed due to fires and safety violations. The department does not have a reopening timetable. IMPD Chief Chris Bailey released a statement regarding this morning's incident.

This morning I woke up to news that was both disturbing and disappointing. The large number of victims involved in this incident highlights the seriousness of this violence.

Above all, I would like to offer my most sincere condolences to the victims and their families. The impact of this senseless violence is considerable and affects not only those injured, but also their loved ones and our entire community.

I would like to congratulate our agents for their quick and professional response. They responded to the scene to treat and assist the injured, trying to manage a complex and chaotic situation.

It is deeply concerning and unacceptable that a conflict has reached this level of violence. There are many other ways to resolve conflicts: walking away, taking a moment to breathe, or leaving the facility altogether. Instead, our community woke up to find nine people injured because someone chose to resolve their conflict with a gun rather than words.

While incidents like this are certainly alarming, they do not erase the progress we have made and will continue to make to improve the safety and security of every neighborhood in our city.

IMPD continues to actively investigate this incident. We urge anyone with information to come forward to call the Aggravated Assault Office at 317-327-3475 or Crime Stoppers of Central Indiana at 317.262.TIPS.

IMPD Chief Chris Bailey

For more information on the Indy Public Safety Foundation click here.

Lina Portman

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