Although homicide numbers are down for 2025 , the string of shootings this past weekend, has public safety officials wanting people to know that "guns are not the solution to anything."

In a news conference on Sept. 22, Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Chief Chris Bailey said his department has been working around the clock to identify the people responsible for the weekend's violence, which included a mass shooting.

"Seven people were shot for reasons we still aren't clear on yet," Bailey said of the early morning Sept. 21 mass shooting . "But according to witnesses, one man grabbed a handgun from the waist of another man and began shooting. The man whose gun was taken pulled a second weapon and shot that person, and a third, yet unidentified person may have shot him."

Bailey said

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