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Jesse Wells

Indianapolis

Reporter. Dad. Husband. Sports fan. Movie buff. Working at @FOX59 and @CBS4Indy in Indianapolis.

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  • 1 week ago | fox59.com | Jesse Wells

    INDIANAPOLIS - An Indianapolis mother is grieving and looking for justice after her youngest son was shot to death on the near west side. The killing is the second time that the mother has lost a son to gun violence. Just after 9:30 a.m. Friday, at 11th and Tibbs, police believe someone robbed, shot and left 19-year-old Jermiaha Billups dead in the alley. That violence took place a little more than two years after the victim's brother was killed on the city's east side. "This don't seem real.

  • 1 week ago | fox59.com | Jesse Wells

    INDIANAPOLIS - Court records unsealed this week detail how police used technology to help arrest a man for murder following a deadly shooting on Indy's west side. The victim was sitting in the driver's seat of her car, parked right in front of her own home on Lupine Drive, when she was shot to death by another driver. Although it took nine months, the victim's sisters said they're relieved an arrest has finally been made for a crime that was caught on camera.

  • 2 weeks ago | cbs4indy.com | Jesse Wells

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  • 2 weeks ago | fox59.com | Jesse Wells

    INDIANAPOLIS - Two men are in jail accused of robbery and felony murder after a shooting on Indy's east side left one man dead and three others wounded. In mid-February, police claim four men showed up to a home on Wallace Avenue planning to commit a robbery. Cameron Clay, 20, allegedly went inside and got into a struggle with the homeowner. During a fight over a gun, the homeowner was shot in the groin before he got control of the weapon and returned fire, killing Clay.

  • 2 weeks ago | cbs4indy.com | Jesse Wells

    INDIANAPOLIS — An Indianapolis mother is in jail accused of child neglect for the second time. Court records show the suspect was on probation for a deadly case of child neglect when police were called to investigate a new case this week. At an apartment complex along Troy Avenue, an 8-year-old girl called her grandmother crying and saying she’d been left home alone for most of the last two weeks looking after her three younger siblings, including a 4-month-old.

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Jesse Wells
Jesse Wells @JesseWellsNews
20 Jun 25

Genesis Cabrera is just about to start a new chapter in his life and it doesn’t involve the Chicago Cubs. #Cubs

Jesse Wells
Jesse Wells @JesseWellsNews
20 Jun 25

Former Center Township deputy constable is charged with impersonating a public servant. The suspect claimed he got his badge and ID from disgraced former Constable Denise Hatch and didn’t turn them in when she was removed from office. https://t.co/OUUTZ4Trpr

Jesse Wells
Jesse Wells @JesseWellsNews
20 Jun 25

Former Center Township deputy constable is charged with impersonating a public servant. The suspect claimed he got his badge and ID from disgraced former Constable Denise Hatch and didn’t turn them in when she was removed from office. https://t.co/B7O4wfA6xT