Indianapolis mother remembers son killed in drive-by shooting

INDIANAPOLIS — Rebecca Roush said her son Addam Hart is everything a mother would want in a son.

“How many kids his age tell you ‘I love you’ every day?” He was silly. He didn’t care, but he was wild in everything he did,” Roush said.

The 25-year-old only got engaged to his girlfriend in February. Then Hart, his fiancée, their 5-year-old son and his mother moved into their new home on Gable Drive. Here they had plans to build their life together.

These plans came to a tragic end on March 28th.

“We had all just gone to bed. The light was off. I hear ‘pop, pop, pop’. “It sounded like electricity was going through the ceiling,” Roush said.

That sound turned out to be the sound of bullets hitting the house. Roush said the 5-year-old was standing in the doorway of a room screaming as Hart tried to save him.

“It was the second round that came through, that was just ‘pop pop’ and Addam got hit at that point and it was a through and through,” Roush said.

Hart was taken to a hospital and later died with his mother and fiancée present.

“She was wiping the blood from his nose and mouth because of what had happened to him,” Roush said. “It’s not nice. Because of what they did, I still see his face. It’s not something you ever want to see. It’s incredibly shocking. “His fiancée and I knew it had something to do with the previous owners of this house,” Roush said.

According to court documents, investigators found 30 bullet holes in the home. They said the 16-year-old accused in the case claimed to be the driver of the vehicle. But she allegedly told police that her boyfriend and another teenager got out and fired the shots into the house. According to those documents, the teen said one of her friends said she had been raped by a man they believed lived on Gable Drive. However, their alleged target no longer lived in this house.

“They didn’t care. They do not care. How the hell did they get access to weapons? The people who gave them guns should also be charged,” Roush said.

Roush wants justice for her son.

“They don’t deserve the life that they can have that my son couldn’t have,” Roush said.

Hart was an organ donor. His mother said he was able to save five lives. Now his family has a recording of his heartbeat in a teddy bear. Roush said she hears it often.