The family of Dreasjon Reed received a copy of the coroner's report nearly three months after he was shot by an Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department officer.

The family of Dreasjon Reed, who was shot and killed by an Indianapolis police officer last month, has filed a federal wrongful death lawsuit.

The appointment of Rosemary Khoury, a deputy prosecutor for Madison County, to probe the May 6 death of 21-year-old Dreasjon "Sean" Reed came one day after Reed's mother and family attorneys called for the federal government to intervene and investigate his death.

A Lafayette officer will not face charges in the fatal shooting of a 39-year-old man who authorities say refused to drop a gun during a standoff with police.

A federal judge has ruled in favor of Indianapolis police in a lawsuit that accused officers of excessive force in a black teenagers fatal shooting following a suspected armed carjacking.

Video of a southwest Indiana police officer fatally shooting a man holding a hammer appears to back an officer's claim he believed the man reached for a gun, authorities said Wednesday.

A man fatally shot by a police officer following a traffic accident in southwest Indiana was aggressively approaching the officer with a hammer before the shooting occurred, authorities said Tuesday.

Police say members of a proactive unit that chases the city's most violent criminals pulled over the van and fatally shot a passenger after he allegedly pulled out the gun.

The lawsuit comes after a grand jury determined police officers were justified in 29-year-old Norman Gary's death on Dec. 4, 2016.

The shooting occurred Thursday afternoon after officers pulled over the suspect's car on the city's far east side.