MUNCIE, IN — Three men were shot, one fatally, at a business northeast of downtown Muncie on the early morning of Sunday, May 31.
According to Melissa Criswell, deputy chief of the Muncie Police Department, emergency responders were sent to Hi Lows, a business at 600 N. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard, about 12:15 a.m. after dispatchers received a report of a shooting there.
A shooting victim — later identified by Delaware County Coroner Gavin Greene as 28-year-old Vincent Bernard Coleman Jr. of Muncie — was found at the scene, and was taken by ambulance to IU Health Ball Memorial Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
Police learned that two other shooting victims were brought to the hospital with gunshot wounds, according to Criswell.
One was a 40-year-old man, who was transferred to an Indianapolis hospital, and was listed in serious condition.
The other was a 30-year-old man who Criswell said was in stable condition at the Muncie hospital.
The investigation is continuing. Anyone with related information is asked to call the Muncie Police Department’s detective division at 765-747-4867, or police dispatchers at 765-747-4838.
A Delaware County sheriff’s deputy approaching the shooting scene on foot early Sunday “encountered a vehicle under circumstances that remain under investigation,” according to a news release from Indiana State Police.
“During the encounter, the deputy discharged his department-issued sidearm at the vehicle,” the ISP release said,.
The occupants of the vehicle and the deputy all escaped injury.
State police are investigating that element of early Sunday’s events — specifically “the deputy’s use of force” — according to the release.
Douglas Walker is a news reporter at The Star Press. Contact him at 765-213-5851 or at dwalker@muncie.gannett.com.