Home of Indianapolis city councilor shot at over his support of data centers

Ron Gibson had recently expressed support for a 14-acre, $500m data center project in Martindale-Brightwood

An Indianapolis city councilor said his home was fired at on Monday, with a note left behind suggesting he had been targeted over his support of data centers.

The case involving Ron Gibson – a Democrat on Indianapolis’s city council since 2024 – comes amid growing bipartisan concern in the US over political violence in the wake of cases such as the September murder of Charlie Kirk, a conservative activist.