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No charges against Gary cop who shot and killed man in 2019
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Gary officer who shot 82-year-old man won t be charged, prosecutors declared
Thursday, prosecutors announced that the Gary officer who shot 82-year-old Melvin Bouler in 2019 wouldn t be charged.
GARY, Ind - The Gary police officer who shot and killed an 82-year-old man in November of 2019 will not be charged.
Prosecutors said Thursday that a grand jury did not come back with an indictment of murder or reckless homicide charges over Melvin Bouler s death.
In November 2019, Gary police responded to reports of an armed man in the 2400 block of Roosevelt Street.
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BLM Gary held a protest at the Crown Point Government Complex on Wednesday, seeking withheld information on the death of Melvin Bouler.
CROWN POINT â Melvin Bouler is remembered as a kindhearted, honest man of God who lived his life to the fullest and cherished the people in his life.
Eric Bouler, Melvin Boulerâs son, said his father was visiting the home of a friend November 2019 in Gary when he was confronted by police, adding that he had stayed in Gary despite the request of his loved ones.
âDaddy opted to stay in Gary when many family members asked him to leave. He told us he believed in Gary. Unfortunately, this allegiance cost him his life,â Eric Bouler said.
HAMMOND â A hearing-impaired 82-year-old man was not intoxicated and did not have a gun when he was shot by Gary police Nov. 7, 2019, a recently filed wrongful death lawsuit states.
Police have said Gary officers encountered Melvin Bouler while responding to a report of an intoxicated man with a weapon in the 2400 block of Roosevelt Street and shot him after he failed to follow officers orders.
Bouler, of Gary, died Jan. 4, 2020, at a Chicago hospital from the wounds he suffered in the shooting, according to the Cook County medical examiner s office. Gary police counted Bouler s death in 2020 as a homicide.
In a lawsuit filed last month in U.S. District Court in Hammond, attorneys for Bouler s family said Bouler s homicide was a result of hyper-aggressive policing by the responding officers.