INDIANAPOLIS — A 43-year-old man was shot and killed Wednesday morning on the east side of Indianapolis, police said.
Officers with the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police responded to a report of a person shot just before 7 a.m. in the 500 block of South Emerson Avenue.
IMPD Officer Genae Cook said police found a man on the front porch of the home with a gunshot wound.
Medics transported Eugene Kestner Jr. in critical condition to Eskenazi Hospital where he later died.
Cook said Kestner Jr. was known to people in the home and that he was knocking on the door before he was shot. Detectives are trying to determine was led to the shooting, she said.
The weapon detectives believed was used in the incident was recovered at the scene, Cook said.
Anyone with information about the shooting is asked to email Detective Daniel Smith at daniel.smith@indy.gov or call him at the IMPD Homicide Office at 317-327-3475. People can also call Crime Stoppers of Central Indiana anonymously at 317-262-8477.
“If they saw something, if they heard something, please call the detectives or call homicide and let them know what you saw or heard,” Cook said.
