INDIANAPOLIS — A teenage boy is dead after he was shot early Monday morning on the southwest side of Indianapolis, according to police.
Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department officers were called around midnight to an apartment complex in the 6700 block of Twig Place on the report of a person shot. This is near West Southport Road and Mann Road.
Officers arrived and found Xavier Fairley, 17, who was shot and in critical condition, IMPD Officer William Young said in a press release. The boy later died at the hospital.
Fairley's family shared this photo of him with WRTV.
Fairley's mom attended a balloon release for her son Saturday at Holliday Park. She said her son cared for others and had a bright future ahead of him.
"He just loved everybody, wanted to help everybody ... he learned sign language because his best friend's whole family was deaf. He learned how to speak Swedish because there was a foreign exchange student that didn't have anybody to talk to, so he came home and taught himself Swedish so he could talk to this girl so she wouldn't feel all by herself," Rebecca Ridpath said. "That was just the type of person he was ... he didn't do anything wrong."
He was set to attend Arizona State University on a scholarship this fall.
The homicide investigation is still active and being led by Detective Douglas Swails. Anyone with information is asked to call him at 317-327-3475.
Tips can also be reported anonymously to Crime Stoppers of Central Indiana at 317-262-TIPS (8477) or online.
Detectives are also investigating three other shootings early Monday morning. Young said all three of these people who were shot were "awake and breathing."
- 800 block of Belhaven Drive
- 5500 block of Chalan Court
- 100 block of South Tibbs Avenue
WRTV Reporter Adam Schumes contributed to this report.
