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7 people stabbed outside a strip mall in Indianapolis
At least seven people were stabbed outside a strip mall on the northwest side of Indianapolis early Monday morning, police said.
Three people were taken to area hospitals in critical condition and two others were transported in stable condition, Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department public information officer William Young told media outlets, including CBS affiliate WTTV on Monday. Two others were treated at the scene and released.
Officers responded to a disturbance at about 3:40 a.m. to an address that traces to a strip mall and a restaurant called Miami’s Garden, WTTV reported.
“Those officers quickly arrived and discovered multiple people outside in a parking lot and it appeared some type of disturbance had occurred,” Young said.
At least seven people had “injuries consistent with stab wounds or some type of trauma,” he said. One injured person, described by Young as a person of interest, was among those taken to the hospital.
IMPD says 7 people were injured in a stabbing incident on the northwest side of Indianapolis. A disturbance led to violence in a parking lot https://t.co/XeFUzWp7nm
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Young said it appeared a fight between two groups broke out in the parking lot. Some witnesses tried to intervene and they provided aid to injured victims, Young said.
“At this time, we do not believe an immediate threat to this particular area, however, there will be a high police presence throughout the morning as folks are on their way to work,” Young said. “And so we’ll be canvassing the area as our northwest officers are doing now, trying to look for any camera footage, or surveillance footage that any of these businesses may have.”
No arrests had been made by early Monday morning.
This is a developing story and will be updated.
The House Ethics Committee, which has been conducting an investigation into sexual misconduct and obstruction allegations against Rep. Matt Gaetz of Florida, scheduled a vote for Friday on whether to release its report, according to three sources with knowledge of the committee’s work.
Hours after President-elect Donald Trump said he planned to nominate Gaetz to be attorney general, Gaetz resigned his congressional seat, effective immediately.
“I do not intend to take the oath of office for the same office in the 119th Congress, to pursue the position of Attorney General in the Trump Administration,” Gaetz said in his resignation letter obtained by CBS News
House Speaker Mike Johnson told reporters that there was about an eight-week period during which Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis could fill his seat by setting the date for a special election.
Now that Gaetz has resigned, it is unclear whether the panel will vote on releasing the report, since Gaetz is no longer in Congress.
There is precedent in Congress on the Senate side for an ethics committee report to become public after a member resigns from Congress, however. In 2011, this happened when Sen. John Ensign of Nevada resigned amid allegations that he tried to hide an extramarital affair.
But it’s not clear that that would apply to the House, leaving open the possibility that the report on Gaetz would not be released.
In June, the House Ethics Committee released a statement saying it was investigating a range of allegations against Gaetz, including sexual misconduct, illicit drug use, and bribery.
Multiple sources at the time told CBS News that four women had informed the House Ethics Committee that they had been paid to go to parties that included sex and drugs, and that Gaetz had also attended. The committee has Gaetz’s Venmo transactions that allegedly show payments for the women.
Gaetz has repeatedly denied wrongdoing and has called the committee’s investigation a “frivolous” smear campaign.
Some of the allegations of sexual misconduct under review by the committee were also the subject of a previous Department of Justice probe into Gaetz. Federal investigators sought to determine if Gaetz violated sex trafficking and obstruction of justice laws, but no charges were filed.
The House Ethics Committee resumed its investigation into Gaetz in 2023, following the Justice Department’s decision not to pursue charges against him.
Gaetz has long blamed then-House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, also a Republican, for the probe. And Gaetz later led the movement to sack McCarthy as speaker.
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