🌱 Damien Center Awarded $2M + Lakeside Pointe Fire And Shooting

Up and at 'em, Indianapolis! Let's get you started this Friday with everything you need to know going on around Indianapolis today.

First, today's weather:

Partly sunny and mild. High: 56 Low: 34.

Here are the top stories in Indianapolis today:

1. Damien Center, a nonprofit organization located just east of downtown, has been awarded $2M for a new housing assistance program for people living with HIV. The funds were awarded to the center on Wednesday by The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, and are a part of $41 million in Housing Opportunities for Persons With AIDS competitive grants that HUD awarded to 20 local governments and non-profit organizations across the country. Damien Center will use the money to serve people 55 and older living with HIV as part of a new program called the Elder Housing Assistance Fund, which will combine the ideas of “housing as healthcare” and “food as medicine” movements. (WFYI)
2. Two more incidents were reported at a troubled north Indianapolis apartment complex. A Wednesday alarm marked 21 times this year IFD has been called to Lakeside Pointe for fire-related emergencies when they were called for a cooking-related fire which was contained to one unit. Within hours of each other, a shooting occurred at the complex and one person was brought to Eskenazi Hospital in stable condition. (WTHR)
3. Indiana State Police have canceled a silver alert issued Thursday for a missing Indianapolis man. (WANE)
4. A Lego-inspired pop-up bar, Brick Bar, is coming to Indianapolis for one night only on March 19, 2022. (WIBC - Indianapolis News & Politics)
5. The man who stabbed two IMPD officers in an ambush early Wednesday morning says he planned the attack in retaliation for a large medical bill he felt wronged by and couldn't afford to pay. (Fox 59)

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— Miranda Fraraccio

About me: Miranda Fraraccio is a born and raised Rhode Islander. She works as a freelance copywriter for content creation agency Lightning Media Partners and as an assistant producer for a live-lit storytelling show in Chicago. She holds a degree in Writing & Rhetoric and Communication Studies from The University of Rhode Island. In her free time, you can find her traveling, hiking, or photographing her neighborhood as a street photographer.