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BROWNSTOWN, Ind. (WISH) — A Jackson County grand jury last week indicted a 50-year-old Brownstown man of reckless homicide in the death of an infant attacked by a dog in 2025, the Jackson County Sheriff’s Office said Monday.
The 2-month-old girl’s mother also faces a criminal charge in a Jackson County court.
Online court records on Monday evening did not yet show a case filed against Todd A. Banks. A news release from the sheriff’s office said Banks was indicted on a low-level felony county of reckless homicide. He remained in jail on Monday evening.
The release and previous information from the sheriff’s office said the pit bull dog’s attack happened April 3, 2025, in the 1800 block of South County Road 100 East, which is about a 4-minute drive southeast of downtown Brownstown. No details on how the dog attack happened were provided in the latest release.
County deputies and Brownstown Police Department officers arrested Banks on Sunday.
Online records show the child’s mother, Paitlyn Grove, 25, of Crothersville, faces a count of reckless homicide, filed Friday in Jackson Circuit Court. No court hearing has been scheduled in her case. Other online records did not list Grove as an inmate in the county jail as of 5:30 p.m. Monday. It was not clear from court records filed by Monday that an arrest warrant had been issued for Grove.
The previously released information said the girl was taken to Schneck Medical Center in Seymour, where she died before she could be flown by helicopter to another hospital.
Monday’s release from the sheriff’s office said, “Due to ongoing court proceedings, no additional information regarding the case will be released at this time.”
News 8 has reached out for court documents in the cases.
Jackson County, with 47,300 residents, is about an 80-minute drive south of downtown Indianapolis.
INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — Qualifying format for the 110th running of the Indianapolis 500 is changing.
IndyCar announced Monday that it’s adding an additional qualifying round on Sunday called the Final 15. This will replace the traditional last chance qualifying round, which would bump the slowest car out of the field of 33, since there are only 33 entries in this year’s field.
Instead, all teams will have qualifying runs on Saturday to try to advance to Sunday. Cars ranked 10-15 will then compete in the Final 15 round beginning at 4 p.m. Sunday to fight for the final three spots in the Top 12 round. Teams not making it will then earn positions 13-15.
The rest of the Sunday’s schedule remains the same. The newly-determined Top 12 cars will then fight for a spot in the Fast Six. Top 12 will run at 5 p.m. with the Fast Six scheduled at 6:35 p.m. The fastest car from that group will then earn this year’s coveted pole position.
Chip Ganassi Racing’s Alex Palou is the defending Indy 500 champion after a historic year in the IndyCar Series last year, while Arrow McLaren’s Christian Lundgaard returns to the IMS oval with the momentum of Saturday’s Sonsio Grand Prix win on the IMS road course.
Practice for the 110th running of the Greatest Spectacle in Racing will be from noon to 6 p.m. Tuesday through Friday. Qualifying begins Saturday at 11 a.m.
Saturday, May 16
8:30-9:30 a.m. Pre-Qualifying Practice
11 a.m.-5:50 p.m. NTT INDYCAR SERIES Qualifying (Determining positions 16-33): 11 a.m.-6 p.m.
Sunday, May 17
1-2 p.m. Final 15 Practice (Positions 10-15 from Day One)
2-3 p.m. Top 12 Practice (Positions 1-9 from Day One)
4 p.m. Indianapolis 500 Final 15 Qualifying (Positions 13-15 determined, fastest three advance to Top 12)
5 p.m.* Top 12 Qualifying (Positions 7-12 determined, fastest six advance to Firestone Fast Six)
6:35 p.m.* Firestone Fast Six
7 p.m.* NTT P1 Award Presentation
*Times are approximate
INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — A man has been sentenced to 88 years in prison for the deadly mass shooting at a Broad Ripple bar in 2024, that killed one and wounded five others.
Nicholas Fulk, 25, was found guilty of Murder, Aggravated Battery and four counts of Battery by Means of a Deadly Weapon after a three-day trial in March.
Marion County Prosecutor Ryan Mears announced Monday that Fulk will serve 88 years in the Indiana Department of Correction.
“The strength shown by Timothy Brown Jr.’s family throughout this case has been remarkable,” Prosecutor Mears said. “Even while reliving one of the worst moments of their lives, they spoke about Timothy with love, dignity, and grace. Timothy was more than a victim in this case, he was a devoted father, a brother, a son, a mentor, and a person who made his community better. Indianapolis needs more people like Timothy, and today’s sentence ensures accountability for the life that was taken far too soon.”
Fulk’s charges stem from a deadly shooting inside Landsharks bar on Broad Ripple Avenue on March 16, 2024.
Five victims were found inside the bar with gunshot wounds. A sixth person was self-transported to the hospital. Timothy Brown Jr., 36, later died from his injuries.
Bar surveillance video showed an argument between two women just before the shooting. As the group moved toward the exit, Fulk grabbed a gun from one of the women and opened fire. None of the surviving victims were involved in the argument.
Investigators used bar cameras and Flock camera technology to track Fulk’s vehicle to his south side home, where he was arrested. The coat and hat he wore during the shooting, along with a firearm found under the driver’s seat, were recovered from his vehicle.
The Broad Ripple Village Association had previously added safety measures to the district following a string of violence, including earlier bar closing times, added cameras, lighting and early lot closures.
IMPD North District Commander Matthew Thomas said at the time: “It’s acts like this, where you have one person making a very poor decision, that impacts this close-knit community.”
PORTLAND, USA, May 11 (IPS) – After more than two centuries of independence, it appears that the United States Congress, or at least certain parts of it, has finally discovered the existence of sexual harassment within the institution.
BANGKOK, Thailand, May 11 (IPS) – Climate models are converging: El Niño is likely to return by mid-2026 and could be strong. According to the World Meteorological Organization, it could emerge as early as May–July 2026, with several national hydrometeorological agencies in Asia and the Pacific already issuing alerts.
Read the full story, “El Niño Likely to Return: the Case for Early Action”, on globalissues.org →
INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — Dry and beautiful weather will open the week before storm chances return mid-week.
We will carry over the beautiful Mother’s Day weekend weather into the start of the work week. Expect plenty of sunshine, with maybe just a few scattered clouds developing later this afternoon. High temperatures should top out in the upper 60s and lower 70s, close to the average of 72°.
Quiet weather continues overnight with dry conditions and cool temperatures. Lows will dip into the mid-40s.
Tuesday looks relatively quiet, with sunshine early and clouds building later in the day. High temperatures will reach the mid-70s.
Rain returns Tuesday night.
A cold front will move through the region during the early to mid-evening hours. The best chance for showers and thunderstorms will be during that time frame.
A few storms could be on the stronger side, mainly north and west of the metro area, with isolated damaging wind gusts possible.
Wednesday
Some lingering showers before daybreak on Wednesday should quickly move out. Cooler Canadian high pressure will build in behind the cold front, dropping temperatures back to the 50s by the afternoon hours. Winds will gust between 25 and 35 mph during the day, making it feel much colder.
Late-week warm-up
Temperatures will rebound quickly by the end of the week, with highs reaching the mid-70s on Friday. We will likely see readings climb back into the low to mid-80s as we head into the upcoming weekend.
With the warmer air, more muggy conditions will also settle in. This will bring isolated and scattered rain chances starting Friday and continuing into the weekend, resulting in a more summer-like pattern across our area.
MUNCIE, Ind. (WISH) — Police are investigating a triple shooting that took place on Muncie’s south side Sunday evening that left a woman dead and two men injured.
According to police, at approximately 5:27 p.m., Muncie Police Officers were dispatched to the 2700 block of South Walnut Street in reference to reports of several people being shot.
Officers arrived and located three gunshot victims: A 23-year-old female who died from “multiple wounds,” a 39-year-old male who is hospitalized in stable condition, and a 40-year-old male who was airlifted to an Indianapolis hospital in critical condition.
Police say a suspect is in custody, a 21-year-old man.
Police did not provide any additional information.
Anyone with information is encouraged to call the Muncie Police Detective Division at 765-747-4867 or dispatch at 765-747-4838.
Passengers and crew from the cruise ship MV Hondius began disembarking in Tenerife on Sunday under a tightly coordinated international health operation led by Spanish authorities and the World Health Organization (WHO), as officials sought to reassure the public that the outbreak “is not another COVID.”
INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — A man is dead, and a suspect has been detained following a shooting on Indy’s far east side.
The shooting took place around midnight Sunday near the intersection of East 10th Street and Shadeland Avenue.
Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department officers arrived at the scene and found a man with multiple gunshot wounds. Medics rushed him to a hospital, where he later died.
Investigators say they believe it started as an altercation in the parking lot of a business before the shooting happened.
The suspect stayed on the scene and was later detained. IMPD says they located a gun in the suspect’s car.
IMPD Capt. John Arvin told media at the scene, “It’s Mother’s Day. Here’s the tragedy. A mother is going to get a knock on the door this morning that her son is dead. For the rest of her life, every Mother’s Day, she’s going to remember that’s the day my son died.
“That just makes this a senseless tragedy. We have no idea what the fight was over, what led to the shooting, but whatever it was, does it lead to someone’s mother knowing for the rest of her life my son died on mothers day. That’s just tragedy.”
Police say many of the surrounding businesses have security cameras, and they will contact them today to review the footage as part of the investigation.
