On the evening of May 8, 2023, 19-year-old Austin Bunn was shot inside an apartment at 7800 Carlton Arms Drive on Indianapolis’s northeast side. The shooting happened just before 8 p.m.; Bunn was taken to a hospital in critical condition and died the next day.

Police determined the fatal shot came from Bunn’s roommate, 21-year-old Eric Salinas, who was employed as a jail officer with the Hancock County Sheriff’s Department at the time. Salinas told investigators he was handing his service weapon to Bunn so Bunn could clean it, had removed the magazine but did not know a round remained in the chamber, and that the firearm discharged when he pulled the trigger. Salinas was arrested on a charge of reckless homicide, a Level 5 felony, and placed on administrative leave; the case was filed in Marion County Superior Court.

The shooting is described as unintentional. Does anyone have information about what happened at the apartment that night or knew Austin or his roommate?