Carmel Woman, 28, Killed In Spring Creek Shooting

CARMEL, IN — Police said a shooting in the Spring Creek neighborhood that left two dead and one hospitalized Monday stemmed from a domestic situation that took place before the suspected shooter threatened to take his own life. Carmel police said the person who first called 911 said the suspected shooter, identified as 26-year-old Julio Cesar Virula, from Carmel, had a gun. Dispatchers then heard gunshots in the background during that call, police added.

While officers were responding to a home in the 14300 block of Riverrock Court, there were more 911 calls reporting gunshots, police said. When officers got to the home, they found two victims who had been shot. Taylor Leigh Cox, 28, from Carmel, was pronounced dead, and a 66-year-old woman, also from Carmel, was taken to the hospital and later released, police said.

Officers located Virula nearby and found that he still had a gun.

Virula led officers on a short chase, police said, adding that in order to prevent any further danger to their community or officers, one of the officers shot their service weapon.

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Virula was pronounced dead, and his official cause of death is pending the completion of an autopsy. The official cause of death is pending completion of an autopsy.

Police said this investigation will continue, and their investigators will complete it "thoroughly and professionally."

Police ask that anyone who may have witnessed this incident or has information or evidence, such as video surveillance recordings, please call the Carmel Police Department's non-emergency dispatch number at 317-571-2580 and ask to speak with an officer.

Multiple scenes in the neighborhood were being investigated, and several officers responded to the area Monday, police said.

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