In the early hours of November 23, 2025, Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department officers were dispatched to a report of a person shot at a home in the 3100 block of Forest Manor Avenue, on the city’s east side. When they entered the residence just after 4 a.m., they found two men suffering from gunshot wounds; one of them, identified later by the Marion County Coroner as Stephen Chipman Jr., a 31-year-old male was pronounced dead at the scene while the other was rushed to a local
hospital in critical condition. Chipman’s death was subsequently recorded in state and local gun-violence databases as a fatal shooting in Indianapolis on that date, underscoring the ongoing toll of firearm violence in the city.
Within minutes of the first call, officers were sent to a second shooting not far away in the 3000 block of North Gladstone Avenue, where they found another wounded man outside a residence; he was described by police as awake and breathing and was transported to the hospital in stable condition. Detectives have stated that the man shot on Gladstone is believed to be connected to the incident on Forest Manor, effectively making the violence a triple-shooting that spanned two nearby locations, though authorities have not publicly clarified his exact role in the events leading to Chipman’s killing.
Local homicide summaries describe the case as part of a cluster of deadly incidents on Indianapolis’s east side over roughly a 24-hour period, during which multiple people were shot and at least three were killed in separate but near-in-time attacks. In Chipman’s case, police and media reports emphasize that the investigation remains active: as of the latest public updates, no suspects have been named, no arrests have been announced, and investigators continue to seek information from the public, urging anyone with tips to contact the IMPD homicide office or submit anonymous information through Crime Stoppers of Central Indiana.
