The announcement came at a nearly hour-long press conference on July 5, where community leaders discussed a mass shooting between juveniles that occurred hours after a Fourth of July celebration ended downtown,

Metropolitan Police Department Chief Chris Bailey said "parents and guardians have got to step up. A kid is dead tonight."

Two teenage boys were killed in a mass shooting incident that took place early Saturday morning in Indianapolis, according to police. Officers responded to calls of a disturbance around 1:27 a.m. near Washington and Meridian Street when they heard shots fired, according to the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department.