The Marion County Prosecutor’s Office announced Thursday it will seek the death penalty for a man charged in the killing of Marion County Sheriff’s Deputy John Durm this week.

The sheriff’s deputy who died after he was attacked by a detainee at the Indianapolis Adult Detention Center Monday was strangled with handcuffs, according to court documents.

Law enforcement announced measures to prevent violence in Broad Ripple this coming holiday weekend.

Indianapolis has seen an increase in accidental shootings among adults and children in 2023 compared to the year before. Law enforcement will give out free gun locks in an effort to curb dozens of accidental injuries and deaths in Marion County.

The step is one of several initiatives Indianapolis Mayor Joe Hogsett laid out in his violence reduction plan last month.

Indianapolis City-County Council committees approved a series of proposals this week that aim to address gun violence, after a weekend that saw multiple shootings.

A man died and two Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Officers were wounded in a shooting during a pursuit Thursday.

A school bus driver found a teenage boy who had been shot on Indianapolis’ east side Thursday morning.

Faith leaders in Indianapolis have asked the U.S. Department of Justice to investigate the city’s police department. The request follows a year that included both the in-custody death of Herman Whitfield III, and an incident in which Indianapolis Metropolitan Police officers shot at a man parked in his grandmother’s driveway.

Two men convicted of murder and other charges in the fatal Indianapolis shootings of three young men and a young woman were both sentenced Friday to 220 years in prison.