High School Shooter Shot In Self Defense + Arsonist Sentenced

Morning, Indianapolis! Let's get you started this Tuesday with everything you need to know going on in Indianapolis today.

First, today's weather:

Variable clouds with a shower. High: 79 Low: 65.

Here are the top stories today in Indianapolis:

1. An 18-year-old accused of shooting another teen at a Ben Davis High School football game Friday night told police he shot the boy "on accident" after firing warning shots at him. David Tillman said he was acting in self-defense when he shot the 16-year-old boy in the right elbow outside Ben Davis' homecoming football game against Carmel, the records indicate. He said he "was firing warning shots at (the teen) in self-defense" after a disturbance near the field. (IndyStar)
2. A man has been sentenced to prison for a string of arsons over a number of years in Indianapolis. David Bradshaw will serve 32 years in the Indiana Department of Correction as part of a 40-year total sentence. Bradshaw was sentenced Friday; he pleaded guilty to seven counts of arson that authorities said stretched back to 2014. (Indiana Lawyer)
3. Indicating Indianapolis has an excess of guns and a deficit of hope, Mayor Joe Hogsett announced $440,000 in community anti-violence grants Monday morning, a $140,000 increase over this year’s funding. (Fox 59)
4. A woman has dropped a lawsuit against Indianapolis hospital, Ascension St. Vincent, which refused to treat her mother's COVID with ivermectin. (WTHR)
5. Indy Parks announced Monday that masks are required inside all facilities and family centers, regardless of vaccination status, effective immediately. (WTHR)

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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.