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An Indiana police lieutenant was shot and killed while trying to help at the scene of a car crash on Thursday, authorities said.

The Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department said the death of Lt. Aaron Allan of the police department in Southport, just outside of Indianapolis, was the department's first line-of-duty death.

The shooting happened Thursday at about 2:30 p.m., when Allan and an officer from the Homecroft Police responded to a report of a crash, the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department said.

"As Lt. Allan approached the inverted vehicle to assist, shots were fired by one of the vehicle's occupants," police said in a statement.

According to ABC affiliate RTV6 in Indianapolis, a witness at the scene said the driver was upside down in the car when he began shooting at Allan.

The Homecroft police officer "and an off-duty Johnson County Sheriff's Deputy, who had stopped to help, returned fire striking one of the individuals," police said. "Both people inside the car were taken to Eskenazi Hospital, one for injuries sustained from being shot, and the other from injuries believe sustained during the crash."

Allan, 38, a husband and father, was hospitalized and later died, police said.

Jason Brown, 28, of Indianapolis, was arrested on suspicion of murder, according to police, though he has not yet been formally charged. The Marion County Prosecutors Office will make a charging decision, police said, calling the investigation ongoing.

The car's passenger was interviewed as a witness and released by police, authorities said.

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http://abcnews.go.com/US/indiana-police-...ory?id=48908410

The police officer, the father of two, was there to help. His killer was belted in and upside down. At this time there is no known motive for this seemingly senseless killing.