Johnson County Fire Claims Third Victim Tuesday Morning A fire that killed two young children on Friday has claimed another life. Sirena Slusher-Abbot had been in a medically induced coma after suffering burns over 30-percent of her body trying to rescue her children. The 29-year-old mom died from her injuries Tuesday. Fire officials in Nineveh […]
City Leaders Will Announce Revised Violence Reduction Plan Indianapolis Police Chief Rick Hite and other city leaders will announce a review of their summer violence reduction plan this afternoon. City leaders unveiled the community-wide initiative to fight and reduce crime in early June. Since then, the city has seen several violent incidents, including deadly shootings. […]
IMPD to add more officers to street patrol The city’s plan to put more police officers on the streets will be unveiled today. Mayor Greg Ballard, Police Chief Rick Hite and Public Safety Director Troy Riggs want to shift about 100 police officers to help deal with an increase in violence. There were 16 homicides […]
AM1310 can independently confirm that 10 year old Tatyana Staten has been found near 46th and Shadeland Ave. IMPD reported a found child shortly after 10am Sunday. IMPD Chief Rick Hite confirmed with AM 1310 and PraiseIndy.com that a person believed to be Staten, had been located and detectives were on there way to the scene. WTLC […]
Interim Chief of the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department (IMPD) Rick Hite made his first interview on Afternoons with Amos as Chief defending IMPD’s controversial zone policing system. In the system more police are assigned to higher crime areas leaving fewer police in many areas of the city/county. This has caused many to complain about a […]
Shock. anger, disgust, disappointment. That’s just some of the reactions of Indianapolis Black community leaders and Afternoons with Amos listeners to the bombshell announcement of more scandal and malfeasance in the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department. IMPD Chief Paul Ciesielski has been forced to resign. The head of the Department’s internal affairs division has been placed […]
