🌱 Riverdale child killed in home; what police say happened Tuesday
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- Riverdale child killed in home; what police say happened Tuesday
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📰 News we're reading
• 3 people in custody after 5-year-old shot to death in suburban Riverdale (meigsindypress.com) — Riverdale police are investigating a fatal shooting that left a 5-year-old child dead inside a home on the 13900 block of South State Street Tuesday evening. Three family members who were in the house at the time are in custody as detectives pursue a homicide investigation, though no charges have yet been announced. 
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