Bloomington police looking for footage of dark-colored sedan in connection with fatal shooting

Bloomington police are looking for a footage of a dark-colored sedan in connection with a fatal shooting near the intersection of West Howe Street and South Morton Street on Friday (Sept. 26) around 9:30 p.m.

The location is a block northeast of 2nd and Rogers Streets, the corner of the area that the city plans to redevelop as the new Hopewell neighborhood.

According to a news release from Bloomington Police Department, witnesses reported that there was a disturbance between the occupant of the car and a man at the Howe-and-Morton intersection, which led to an occupant getting out of the car, taking out a handgun, and firing one shot, which killed the man.

According to witnesses, the shooter then got back into the dark-colored sedan and then sped away from the area. Witnesses said the car drove westbound on Howe Street, then turned northbound on Madison Street.

Witnesses told officers that they could hear a woman inside the car screaming as it drove from the scene. The news release says police do not believe that the shooter and victim knew each other.

Police are asking that people who live in the neighborhood of the shooting to review any available camera footage they might have, to find images of the vehicle as it entered and left the neighborhood.

Police are asking anyone with information to contact the Bloomington Police Department at (812) 339-4477 and ask to speak with Detective Chris Scott.

When officers arrived on the scene, they found the man lying on the ground with a gunshot wound on the left side of his upper body, and started emergency medical aid until Bloomington Fire Department and IU Health Ambulance Service arrived. The man was transported to IU Health Bloomington Hospital, where he was pronounced dead by a physician at 10:28 p.m. He is described in the news release as a “29-year-old transient man.”

BPD defines “transient” in a general police order as someone “who lacks stable housing or employment and stays in one place for brief periods of time” and “someone who moves from place to place, just passing through the area, and is not staying for a long time.”