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"No Data Centers" Note Left After 13 Rounds Fired at Indianapolis City Councilor’s Home

  • Apr 7
  • 2 min read

INDIANAPOLIS — In what authorities are calling an isolated and targeted attack, the home of Indianapolis City-County Councilor Ron Gibson was riddled with bullets early Monday morning, just days after he publicly backed a controversial $500 million data center project. An unknown assailant fired 13 rounds into the front door of Gibson’s East 41st Street residence and left behind a handwritten note in a plastic bag reading, "No Data Centers."


Gibson and his 8-year-old son were asleep inside the home when the gunfire erupted between 12:45 a.m. and 12:50 a.m. While both escaped without physical injury, the councilor expressed horror at the chilling proximity of the violence to his family.


“Just steps from where those bullets struck is our dining room table, where my son had been playing with his Legos the day before,” Gibson said in a public statement. “That reality is deeply unsettling. This was not just an attack on my home, but endangered my child and disrupted the safety of our entire neighborhood.”


The shooting comes amid rapidly escalating local tensions over a proposed data center by the Los Angeles-based startup Metrobloks in the Martindale-Brightwood neighborhood, which falls within Gibson's district. Just last week, Gibson was heckled and booed at a public hearing after voicing his support for the project's rezoning, arguing it would bring vital investment, jobs, and long-term tax revenue to an underutilized site. Opponents, however, have protested the development over environmental justice concerns and a lack of transparency.


City officials have united to condemn the attack. City-County Council President Maggie Lewis called the escalation "alarming and unacceptable," stating that while differences of opinion are natural, "violence, threats, and intimidation are not forms of dialogue—they are attacks on our shared commitment to democracy."

Despite the threat, Gibson has vowed not to back down, stating that the act of violence will not deter him from continuing to serve the residents of his district.

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