"Three off-duty Dutch commandos shot outside hotel in Indianapolis"

[The Bread Guy]

Here's hoping for a full & speedy recovery ....

Three off-duty Dutch commandos shot outside hotel in Indianapolis

Police say the soldiers, who were in the US for training, were found with gunshot wounds early on Saturday.

www.bbc.com

3 Dutch soldiers shot outside hotel in Indianapolis

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Three Dutch soldiers were shot and wounded early Saturday in a shooting in downtown Indianapolis after what local police believe was a disturbance outside the hotel where they were staying, authorities said.

apnews.com

Dutch commandos wounded in shooting outside Indiana hotel

Three Dutch commandos in the United States for training exercises were wounded in a shooting outside their hotel in Indianapolis on Friday night, the Dutch Defense Ministry said.

www.reuters.com

Three Dutch soldiers wounded in shooting outside US hotel

Investigation under way after shooting outside Indianapolis hotel wounds three Dutch soldiers, one of them critically.

www.aljazeera.com

 

[medicineman]

Uncool ...hope they get better.

Does make you wonder if the neighbourhood was recce'd or just picked out of the blue...

 

[Humphrey Bogart]

Saturday at 0330hrs, prolly drunk and mouthing off at the wrong people.

You're not in Europia anymore lads.

 

[Humphrey Bogart]

I've actually been to the very place they were training before.

Reading more into it, apparently there was an altercation earlier in the night. The police are looking for a Silver pickup truck with three males.

They probably mouthed off at some Rednecks and got introduced to Hoosier hospitality.

 

[Blackadder1916]

Uncool ...hope they get better.

Does make you wonder if the neighbourhood was recce'd or just picked out of the blue...

Time spent on recce is seldom wasted.

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Of course the recce could have been focused on the all important off-duty party time. The hotel where they were staying is in the centre of action, not exactly next door to the training site that provides a different type of action.

 

[brihard]

Tragically, one of the three has died of his injuries. Dutch soldier dies of injuries after shooting in Indianapolis | US news | The Guardian

 

[kkwd]

There has been an arrest in connection with this incident.
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Shamar Duncan, 22, was taken into custody by the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department Tuesday afternoon, the department said in a news release.

Duncan was arrested for murder, but the police department said it will decide his final charges after reviewing the case, noting that additional charges are possible. Police did not specify where the suspect was apprehended or a possible motive, but previously attributed Saturday’s shooting to a “disturbance” between the victims and the suspect.

 

[kkwd]

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