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Press release: BPD investigates Wednesday night shooting as homicide

City of Bloomington police detectives are trying to locate possible witnesses to a late Wednesday night shooting that left a 28-year-old man lying in a pool of blood in the parking lot of an apartment complex on the south side of town, according to a press release.

According to the BPD press release, at about 11:25 p.m. on Wednesday (July 22), officers responded to an apartment complex in the 3200 block of S. Walnut Springs Drive. They had received a call about a man shot in a parking lot.

According to the press release, the officers found a man, Bloomington resident Thomas M. Pleasant, Jr. who was lying in the parking lot. He had been shot in the neck. Officers started CPR until an ambulance arrived. According to the press release, he was declared deceased at the hospital at 12:28 a.m.

Five years, one final B Square Bulletin: Thank you!

The final news report by The B Square Bulletin has now been published. Regular coverage by the B Square started in July 2019, which makes for a run of about five and a half years. The choice of now as the ending time has no particular symbolic value. I’m

Commissioners OK Monroe County zoning overhaul, 13 possible remaining topics to be tackled in 2025

On Wednesday night, Monroe County commissioners voted 3–0 to adopt the county development ordinance (CDO). The CDO includes all the zoning regulations for the unincorporated part of the county. Two days earlier, on Monday night, the county plan commission had voted 6–1 to forward the most recent draft

Repair not demolish: Bloomington looks to add 1 to affordable housing inventory

The city of Bloomington is now looking to give a house it owns on West 3rd Street a continued life as a house, instead of demolishing it as planned. On Tuesday, the city’s board of public works awarded a $61,561 contract with Rogers Remodeling to do repairs on

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