Evansville Police have arrested 56 year old Robert Ballard Jr on attempted murder charges in connection with the shooting of two women on Friday evening.
Ballard targeted the victims, who are a mother and her adult daughter, and shot them as they sat in a car. The adult daughter’s two children where in the car at the time of the shootings. The children were not injured.
Police believe Ballard had been in a relationship with the older victim and that the relationship had recently ended. She had been staying in the 1000 block of W Delaware for an unkown period of time.
An armed neighbor confronted Ballard as the shooting was happening and the two men exchanged gunfire. Officers who were nearby heard the gunfire and responded to the area. They were able to take Ballard into custody without any further gunfire.The neighbor was not injured and is considered a witness at this time. Ballard will be booked into the jail later this evening.
The two v ictims are currently being treated for life threatening injuries. Anyone who has information on this incident is asked to call EPD.
Suspect arrested in domestic violence shooting investigation
Aces Baseball finishes off Illinois State in rain delayed series opener
They had to wait out 19 hour-plus rain delay, but the University of Evansville baseball team kept on swinging, on their way to a 9-2 victory over Illinois State, in the opening game of their regular season series finale at Braun Stadium Friday afternoon.
The game was picked up in the bottom of the fourth inning, with the Purple Aces leading 5-1 and with runners on first and second with one out. That’s when freshman first basemen Tanner Craig and senior outfielder Dalton Horstmeier picked up where they left off the night before. Craig delivered a single through the right side of the infield, scoring senior third baseman Stewart Nelson from second. Then,Horstmeier followed that up with a single through the left side of the infield, scoring sophomore outfielder Kenton Crews, giving Evansville a 7-1 advantage after four frames.
“Offensively, we just kind of caught fire a little bit, especially in the middle of our line-up”, said Aces Head Coach Wes Carroll. “You saw what Tanner Craig and Dalton Horstmeier, from a numbers standpoint, did. That’s really the first time all year we’ve had guys with multiple RBIs in a game, and that’s the result you’re going to get.”
On the hill, sophomore right hand reliever Adam Lukas took over for freshman starter Adam Ruesch, who dominated after a rough first inning the night before.
“It started on the mound”, said Carroll. “With what we got from Austin Ruesch, really commanding his fastball from both sides of the plate, being able to get his change-up and swing-and-miss in those even counts and being able to get some of those breaking ball strikeouts was crucial.”
Lukas picked up where Ruesch left off, striking out six, while making only one mistake, a solo home run off the bat of Tyson Hays.
“Handing the ball off to Adam Lukas after the delay, coming back from a restart”, said Carroll. “I thought Adam was outstanding today.”
However, that was erased by the team of Craig and Horstmeier again, as the two combined for back to back double in the eighth. Evansville would go onto take a 9-2 victory, with Lukas picking up the win in five innings of shutout work.
The win improves the Aces record to 12-25 overall and 3-16 in the Missouri Valley Conference, while the loss drops Illinois State to 20-28 overall and 7-12 in the MVC.
Game two of Friday’s doubleheader was postponed due to incoming weather and has been pushed back to Saturday at noon, as the front end of a Senior Day doubleheader.
Evansville man sentenced to 30 years for child sex crimes
Vanderburgh County Circuit Court Magistrate Judge Kelli Fink sentenced 31-year-old Domingo Ramos Resendiz to 30 years in prison Friday afternoon in connection with several reported incidents of sexual activity initiated by Resendiz on a child, under the age of 14-years-old.
The victim reported to investigators that the sexual activity happened for several years. According to investigators, Ramos reportedly told the victim that this sexual activity was their “secretâ€.
**Holly’s House is a non-residential child and adult advocacy center for victims of intimate crimes. It’s a safe location where adult and children victims of intimate violence are interviewed and connected to community resources and services as needed. To contact Holly’s House, call 812-437-7233
“READERS FORUM” MAY 19, 2018
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UNCLE RUDY’S REACHES OUT TO LOCAL EDUCATION LEADERS WITH AN OPPORTUNITY TO INCREASE KNOWLEDGE OF FIREARMS
Uncle Rudy’s Indoor Firing Range, the tri-state’s leader in teaching, training and educating the community on firearms, plans to further their education initiative by offering free training services for teachers, school administrators and school staff on May 19th, 2018.
The free training services are in response to the most recent tragedy in Florida. Trainers, instructors, and coaches all over the United States have come together as a unified front to strive for further firearm education, declaring the day: National Train A Teacher Day.
The purpose of this initiative is to provide a service to local education leaders that are interested in learning more about firearms. Owner, John Rudolph commented on their efforts, “We know teachers have a lot on their plate. We’re not saying go arm yourselves if you’re not comfortable doing so. We just want our community educators and school staff to be offered an opportunity to learn more should they be interested. We want to ensure that our community is educated, so they could potentially save a life.â€
The free training opportunities will cover a variety of subjects and could include first aid, Refuse To Be A Victim, firearms safety, concealed carry, unarmed defense, TASER, purpose built active shooter training, Run-Hide-Fight, and defensive tactics.
Uncle Rudy’s encourages all local teachers, school administrators and school staff to take advantage of this opportunity. The training is free, and it provides local school districts with a way to continue education of firearms and give them added confidence in taking action should they be put in such a situation.
Classes will be offered on Saturday, May 19, 2018 at 12PM, 2PM and 4PM. For more information, you can visit Uncle Rudy’s website at www.unclerudys.com or visit the National Train A Teacher Day website at www.nationaltrainateacherday.com.
IU McKinney Law Professor Lawrence Jegen Dies
IU McKinney Professor Lawrence Jegen Dies
A beloved fixture at the law school, Jegen joined the faculty in 1962 and became a full professor in 1966. He taught in the areas of civil and criminal law, but his expertise was in federal and state taxation, where he established himself as one of his generation’s top tax scholars.
IU McKinney dean Andrew Klein said Jegen leaves a strong legacy at the law school.
“It is hard to understate the impact that professor Jegen made on the lives of others during his remarkable 56-year career at our law school,†Klein said. “Using the word ‘legend’ might sound like hyperbole, but today it does not. The outpouring of affection that I have heard from generations of McKinney Law alumni is overwhelming.â€
Jegen received the Thomas Hart Benton Mural Medallion, which is the highest award granted by Indiana University, in 1993 and in 2005. He was also honored with the IU President’s Distinguished Teaching Award in 1989, IU’s Teaching Excellence Recognition Award in 1997, and IU McKinney’s Black Cane Award for Most Outstanding Law Professor six times.
“This is a sad day for our law school family,†Klein said, “but also a moment to remember the incredible difference that a teacher can make. We will miss professor Jegen, but never forget him.â€
Fallen Heroes Blood Drive Aims To Save Lives
Fallen Heroes Blood Drive Aims To Save Lives
MAY 18TH, 2018 
AMANDA PORTER INDIANA
After a memorial service for the Vanderburgh County Sheriff’s Office and the Evansville Police Department, officers were encouraged to give back in a special way.
The blood drive at the Fraternal Operation of Police Lodge 73 aimed to receive 20 pints of blood in hopes of saving others.
From May until August, the American Red Cross is campaigning across Indiana with the Fallen Heroes blood drive.
Community members in the Hoosier state can also volunteer to donate blood.
Click here to see the times and locations for the Fallen Heroes blood drive.
I WANNABE A GIRL SINGER IN A ROCK BAND By JIM REDWINE
GAVEL GAMUTÂ By Jim Redwine
I WANNABE A GIRL SINGER IN A ROCK BAND
I am so excited! Our new granddaughter-in-law is already what I have always wanted to be: a girl singer in a touring rock band. Well, maybe not the girl thing, but ever since I spent my Sunday School offering of a dollar to buy my first record, a 45 rpm single of Sonny James’ “Young Loveâ€, I have secretly dreamed of headlining a rock and roll show. I could have done it too if I hadn’t been unfairly held back by the inability to know a musical key from a wash tub.
But before we get to the wedding of our grandson, Alec, and his bride, Arielle, I have a few questions you, Gentle Reader, who may also be a closet rock star, can answer. First, whatever happened to the Roll in Rock and Roll? Remember Bill Haley and the Comets or Jerry Lee Lewis or Little Richard, etc.? We used to have rock and roll stars. Now, all we have are rock stars. Have we lost the art of rolling? What is rolling anyway? For that matter, what is rocking? I think I used to know the answers to these fundamental youthful behaviors. Now about all I can dimly recall is loud music, conversations about hair and the vague impression of a concert venue filled with strange smelling smoke.
Well, if you have any thoughts on these issues, as the Tappet Brothers used to say, put them on the back of a $20.00 bill and send them to me. For now, let’s get back to our grandchildren’s wedding which was living proof of how men have allowed their once dominant position in such matters to be cast into the dustbin of ancient history.
For example, I am fairly confident our grandson, who is also a fine heavy metal musician, would have been completely okay with a ceremony that involved a large club and a couple of animal skins. The whole thing would have taken ten minutes and cost only some sweat and maybe a broken bone or two. Au contraire mon Ami. When Alec asked for Arielle’s lovely hand in marriage it came with a female retinue of mothers, grandmothers, sisters, aunts and a multitude of feminine wedding enthusiasts. JPeg Ranch, the wedding venue, was transformed from a bucolic backwater to a bastion of bustling estrogen-driven frenzy.
The quiet emptiness of The Ranch was filled with potted plants, satin drapery and netting, twinkling lights of several varieties, enough chairs and tables to accommodate the Light Brigade, fountains, food, cakes, libations bit tender, coolers, a bonfire, a DJ, two large white tents that would have made Lawrence of Arabia proud and even a bishop’s stand for me to stand in as I performed the official duties. This campaign resembled the D-Day Landing. If General Eisenhower had had these women, he could have forgone Omar Bradley. And have I mentioned the pink and blue porta-potties?
Well, it was a glorious and happy event and even as a grumpy old Grandpa, I loved it, especially when Arielle channeled her inner Janis Joplin and sang Me and Bobby McGee. Maybe there’s hope for me yet. After all, any reasonably competent journeyman can be a judge, but to have grandchildren who are rock (and roll) stars, now that is a real accomplishment!
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