On Thanksgiving Day, November 27, 2025, five-year-old Andreas Woodland, a boy from Indianapolis, Indiana, was critically wounded by what investigators describe as an accidental, self-inflicted gunshot inside a townhome on the city’s southwest side; the Marion County Coroner later publicly identified him by name, and available reporting does not specify his ethnicity. Police and emergency medical crews were dispatched just after 4 p.m.
to a residence in the 5200 block of Corgan Way, in a townhome complex near Decatur Boulevard and Mendenhall Road, off Kentucky Avenue and South High School Road. Responding officers found the child suffering from a gunshot wound consistent with a single firearm discharge. He was rushed by EMS to Riley Hospital for Children in critical condition, where he was later pronounced dead.
According to the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department early indications at the scene and subsequent statements to the media have framed the incident as an accidental shooting in which the child somehow gained access to a firearm and discharged it himself. The Marion County Coroner’s Office, which formally released his identity the following day, also prompted a correction of initial police information about his age after an earlier public statement from IMPD misstated that detail; news outlets noted the correction but otherwise focused on the circumstances of the shooting rather than on biographical information about the family.
In the aftermath, investigators have continued to review how the gun was stored and how the child was able to access it, and relatives have been interviewed as part of the standard process for a child-fatality shooting investigation. At the same time, local officials used the case to underscore the importance of secure firearm storage: police highlighted that free gun locks are available at Marion County public libraries and reminded residents that unwanted firearms can be turned in for destruction. As of the latest publicly available reports, authorities have characterized the case as an accidental, self-inflicted shooting, and there has been no announcement of any arrests, named suspects, or criminal charges connected to Andreas Woodland’s death; the investigation was described as ongoing, with police indicating the story would be updated if new developments emerged.
