INDIANAPOLIS — One person is dead after a shooting in Irvington Thursday evening.

According to IMPD, officers were dispatched to a report of a person shot in the 5600 block of East Washington Street around 6:45 p.m. Dec. 4. Officers arrived on the scene to find an adult female who had apparently been shot inside Josephine's , a clothing store at 5620 E. Washington St.

Police said the woman was pronounced dead at the scene.

According to IMPD East District Cmdr. Mike Leepper, officers at the scene located an adult male who had fled from the scene with a handgun. The officers were communicating with the man when a shot was fired, which police believe to be self-inflicted.

The man was taken to the hospital in critical condition.

No officers fired their service weapons during the in

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