The mother of a gun violence victim is launching a Violence Prevention and Intervention (VIP) center on Saturday. The VIP is a pop-up tent that will travel to gun sense events around the area, and give gun violence survivors a platform to speak about their experiences.
Bloomington has joined a growing list of cities adding license-plate reading cameras to their policing efforts, despite opposition from groups saying they raise privacy issues.
Jordyn Thornton did not know Trevonte Kirkwood when he fatally shot him as part of a gang-related killing as Kirkwood walked down a Bloomington sidewalk in 2018, a prosecutor told jurors in closing remarks on Wednesday at Thornton’s murder trial.