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.
âIâll see you in heaven.â
It was the last thing Al Braccolino, 90, of Crown Point, told one of his daughters as paramedics loaded him into an ambulance Nov. 16. COVID-19 forced him into the final fight of his life.
Ten days later, the chair Al usually occupied at the Thanksgiving table would sit empty. The husband to his wife of 70 years, father of three and grandfather of six died on the holiday.
Alâs daughter, Sandra Noe, was herself suffering from COVID-19, which she contracted while caring for her sick parents, when the virus forced Alâs hospitalization.
Noe, 66, is no stranger to helping elderly shut-ins weather isolation.
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âIâll see you in heaven.â
It was the last thing Al Braccolino, 90, of Crown Point, told one of his daughters as paramedics loaded him into an ambulance Nov. 16. COVID-19 forced him into the final fight of his life.
Ten days later, the chair Al usually occupied at the Thanksgiving table would sit empty. The husband to his wife of 70 years, father of three and grandfather of six died on the holiday.
Alâs daughter, Sandra Noe, was herself suffering from COVID-19, which she contracted while caring for her sick parents, when the virus forced Alâs hospitalization.
Noe, 66, is no stranger to helping elderly shut-ins weather isolation.
Police investigate after a shooting at Love s Travel Stop at 3150 Grant St. in Gary. Jeff Dildine, The Times
GARY â A man faces several felony and misdemeanor charges after he sprayed a gas station parking lot with bullets from an AK-47 in an active shooting Tuesday night, police said.Â
Court documents with police and witness testimonies reveal a chaotic scene that night, where a gas station employeeâs quick actions barred the man from getting inside the building filled with staff and customers. No one was injured in the shooting, police said.Â
Gerald Jerome Fogle Sr., 66, was charged with with six Level 6 felony counts of criminal recklessness committed with a deadly weapon and one count of criminal mischief, a Class B misdemeanor, according to Lake Superior Court records.