Category Archives: Police and Fire

BPD chief would decide whether to aid ICE agents on immigration issues
Bloomington Mayor Tari Renner has called a special meeting for 5:30 p.m. Monday to vote on the controversial immigration issue. (File photo by Patrick Baron/WJBC) By Howard PackowitzBLOOMINGTON &...
Syndicated Author Jul 06, 2018

Suspect identified in Bloomington triple homicide
Sydney Mays Jr. is also known as Mitch and Syd, and is considered armed and dangerous. (Bloomington Police Department)By Greg HalbleibBLOOMINGTON – Bloomington investigators have identified a su...
Syndicated Author Jul 03, 2018

Man wounded in West Jefferson Street shooting
Bloomington Police are investigating a shooting that wounded a man on West Jefferson Street early Tuesday morning. Police said the man has non-life threatening injuries. (WJBC file photo) By Howa...
Syndicated Author Jul 03, 2018

BPD’s Wheeler speaks out on officers’ stress, pain of grieving families
Recently appointed Bloomington Police Chief Clay Wheeler is leading a department investigating a pair of shootings in June that killed five people and wounded three others, including a four-year old b...
Syndicated Author Jun 29, 2018

BPD’s Wheeler sees no link between Twin Cities multiple murders
Bloomington Police Chief Clay Wheeler announces the arrest of a suspect in a shooting that killed two people and wounded two others June 10 on Orchard Road. (Howard Packowitz/WJBC) By Howard Pack...
Syndicated Author Jun 27, 2018

Bloomington man arrested for alleged double homicide
Hammet Brown was taken into custody on Tuesday in Chicago. (Bloomington Police)By Howard PackowitzBLOOMINGTON – A Bloomington man is charged with killing two people on the city’s east side...
Syndicated Author Jun 26, 2018

BPD investigating reported Sunday shooting
Two witnesses reported hearing gun shots and seeing one man shoot at another man Sunday evening. (DavidsonScott/flickr)By Patrick BaronBLOOMINGTON – Bloomington Police are investigating a report...
Syndicated Author Jun 26, 2018

Prosecutor Chambers: BPD investigation ‘very active’ into Riley Drive triple murder
McLean County State;’s Attorney Jason Chambers made his first public comments Wednesday about the shooting that killed three men and wounded a four-year old boy in Bloomington. (WJBC file photo)...
Syndicated Author Jun 20, 2018

BPD searches for gunman who robbed Papa John’s Pizza
Bloomington Police are investigating an armed robbery that happened Tuesday night at Papa John’s Pizza on Veterans Parkway. (WJBC file photo) By Howard PackowitzBLOOMINGTON – Blooming...
Syndicated Author Jun 19, 2018

Victim in Riley Drive triple murder was ‘trying to help’ when he heard gunshots
Juan Carlos Perez-Macedo was one of three men killed in a shooting Monday at an apartment complex on Riley Drive in Bloomington. (Photo from GoFundMe.com) By Howard PackowitzBLOOMINGTON ...
Syndicated Author Jun 19, 2018