An auto theft suspect fatally shot by an officer had produced a weapon at the end of a brief, high-speed pursuit, suburban Indianapolis police said Friday.

Prosecutors filed nine charges Friday against a man whom officers shot in an Indianapolis suburb after he pointed a gun at them when they found him hours after he fled from a traffic stop.

Police officers shot a man Friday morning in Johnson County after he pointed a gun at officers who found him hours after he fled from a traffic stop, police said.

One officer fired his handgun and the shots hit both a dog and a person who was attempting to corral the canines, police said.

A handgun fired at police in Indianapolis last month has been linked to three homicides, police said.

Indianapolis police released the names Friday of four officers who fired shots in the fatal shooting of a woman on a porch after they say she reached for a gun when they approached her.

An Indianapolis police officer shot and wounded an armed woman wanted on warrants as he was trying to arrest her late Wednesday in connection with a recent shooting, police said.

Four officers shot and killed a woman on the near northside of Indianapolis Friday afternoon, police say.

The shooting incident is under investigation by the FBI's Inspection Division, according to authorities.

The shooting happened Friday evening at an apartment complex on the citys northeast side. Officers went to the complex on reports of a suicidal man who had fired gunshots in the area, the department said.