Evansville Police were dispatched to 2039 Pollack around 6:00pm after a woman called 911 to report she had been threatened.
The caller, 41 year old Kendra Baker, said that she had recieved a phone call from TERRY LEE DAUGHERTY, 44. Daugherty threatened to come to the house and “cut her throat”.
Daugherty and Baker have a child together and shared the home at 2039 Pollack until Daugherty was arrested on April 16 for Felony Domestic Violence and Strangulation. Daugherty was out on bail from that case and a No Contact Order was in place as a condition of his release.
When the two officer patrol unit arrived at the scene, they spotted Daugherty behind the house holding two knives. Daugherty fled to the south and attempted to get into the house at 2045 Margybeth. The officers were able to contain Daugherty in the driveway of the house and repeatedly told him to drop the knife. Daugherty refused to drop the knife and at one point during the incident told the officers they would have to shoot him.
When Daugherty refused to drop the knife or surrender, one of the officers fired his handgun. Daugherty was struck once in the upper torso. The elapsed time from when the officers arrived to when Daugherty was shot was less than one minute.
The officers began first aid and called for an ambulance. Daugherty was taken to a local hospital for a single gun shot wound. His current condition is unknown, but he is expected to survive.
The officers invovled in the incident have given their first of two statements to investigators and will give a second statement in the coming days. Both will be on leave for a minimum of 72 hours. Their names are not being released at this time.
The Public Library Friends will hold a smaller version of their popular book sale May 3rd and 4th in the Browning Events Room of the Central Library at 200 SE Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. Evansville, IN 47713.
A limited supply of primarily fiction, young adult, children’s and large type books will be available. DVDs and audiobooks will be sold also. Most items cost less than $2. Customers can browse the selections on Saturday from 9:00 am to 4:00 pm and Sunday from 1:00 pm to 4:00 pm.
Shoppers should bring their own bags or boxes. Admission is free, and cash and checks will be accepted.
Proceeds from this event help fund special Evansville Vanderburgh Public Library programs and events. For more information about the Public Library Friends, visit evpl.org/plf.
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Below is a list of felony cases that were filed by the Vanderburgh County Prosecutor’s Office on Thursday, April 17, 2014
William Locklear             Theft-Class D Felony
Public Nudity-Class B Misdemeanor
Terry Volz                          Dealing in Methamphetamine-Class A Felony
Possession of Methamphetamine-Class C Felony
(Habitual Substance Offender Enhancement)
For further information on the cases listed above, or any pending case, please contact Kyle Phernetton at 812.435.5688 or via e-mail at KPhernetton@vanderburghgov.org
Under Indiana law, all criminal defendants are considered to be innocent until proven guilty by a court of law
As you know we have moved the CCO to a new home. We packed up, changed the format and now have a much more comprehensive website. If you use your smart phone to view the site, you will get a wonderful surpise. Now City county observer readers can hit our website from anywhere. Iphones, Ipads, Androids, Tablets, Windows phone. There is not limit. We are very excited about the expansion of our mission and the look of our new home. Unfortunately we significantly underestimated the popularity the new format has had. Our traffic and server demand has gone through the roof and has exceeded the new websites capacity.
Over the next 24 hours we will be moving to and even more powerful site that can keep up with our new levels of service. Our new format has exceeded its new home and we will be moving during the next 24 hours. As with all growth there is a little pain. We like that the new mobile formats and the new look is so popular with our readers.
We also need to tell you that CCO is are forced to double the user fees for access to our website. So starting today the cost of viewing the website will be two times zero. That’s right, we are doubling our fees to double zero.  But we think you will keep the hits coming our way. Over the next few days you will see some other features added, that will knock your socks off and make our site even more popular.
IS IT TRUE we were utterly intrigued on Sunday when the Courier and Press published a report on the crime in the City of Evansville from 1989, a scant 25 years ago?…in the section on things of the past it was stated that in 1989 Evansville was the safest city in Indiana and one of the safest cities with a population over 100,000 in the entire United States of America?…the sources cited for that glowing and comforting report were the crime statistics of the FBI?…then Mayor Frank McDonald II was quoted as saying the safety and favorable crime statistics would be used to promote the City of Evansville to tourists and businesses across America?
IS IT TRUE when compared to what we have now from a crime perspective all we can say is what a difference 25 years makes?…the following narrative about crime in Evansville is readily available online at the website called Neighborhood Scout that cites FBI statistics of right now to say the following: “With a crime rate of 56 per one thousand residents, Evansville has one of the highest crime rates in America compared to all communities of all sizes – from the smallest towns to the very largest cities. One’s chance of becoming a victim of either violent or property crime here is one in 18. Within Indiana, more than 96% of the communities have a lower crime rate than Evansville.Importantly, when you compare Evansville to other communities of similar population, then Evansville crime rate (violent and property crimes combined) is quite a bit higher than average. Regardless of how Evansville does relative to all communities in America of all sizes, when NeighborhoodScout compared it to communities of similar population size, its crime rate per thousand residents stands out as higher than most.The crime data that NeighborhoodScout used for this analysis are the seven offenses from the uniform crime reports, collected by the FBI from 17,000 local law enforcement agencies, and include both violent and property crimes, combined.Now let us turn to take a look at how Evansville does for violent crimes specifically, and then how it does for property crimes. This is important because the overall crime rate can be further illuminated by understanding if violent crime or property crimes (or both) are the major contributors to the general rate of crime in Evansville.From our analysis, we discovered that violent crime in Evansville occurs at a rate higher than in most communities of all population sizes in America. The chance that a person will become a victim of a violent crime in Evansville; such as armed robbery, aggravated assault, rape or murder; is 1 in 211. This equates to a rate of 5 per one thousand inhabitants.In addition, NeighborhoodScout found that a lot of the crime that takes place in Evansville is property crime. Property crimes that are tracked for this analysis are burglary, larceny over fifty dollars, motor vehicle theft, and arson. In Evansville, your chance of becoming a victim of a property crime is one in 19, which is a rate of 51 per one thousand population.Importantly, we found that Evansville has one of the highest rates of motor vehicle theft in the nation according to our analysis of FBI crime data. This is compared to communities of all sizes, from the smallest to the largest. In fact, your chance of getting your car stolen if you live in Evansville is one in 281.”
IS IT TRUE we encourage our readers to go to the website NeighborhoodScout.com and confirm this narrative along with the graphs and charts showing how the City of Evansville compares to other cities in the United States of America?…for a city to take such a dive in crime statistics in such a short time begs for an explanation and we welcome any and all who care to opine about what has happened to this once safe and significant city on the Ohio River? …we don’t understand why the Mayor ask City Council last week to reduced our police Department  budget for 2014?  …we are extremely proud of the effort our men and woman in blue are doing to protect us from bad people of this community?  …the Mayor should be finding creative ways to increase the police department operations budgets for 2014 so our outstanding men and woman in blue can have the additional resources to take it to the bad people of our community?
IS IT TRUE we finally have confirmed that the resolution to rescind the loan approval that the Evansville City Council extended to Earthcare Energy LLC was filed on April 17, 2014 and God willing and the City Council has 6 intelligent human beings on it this nightmare will be put to rest on May 12, 2014 when a vote can be held?…if there is not sufficient votes or will to rescind this ill-advised approval at least we will know who to vote out for financial ineptitude in next years city elections?…the only logical vote is a 9 – 0 vote to rescind given that two years after the fact Earthcare Energy LLC has no patent, has not proven its concept with an installation anywhere, and has not found another City Council in the entire country gullible enough to take their bait hook, line, and sinker like Evansville’s did in 2012?…the CCO says, let’s hope all nine of our elected members of the council have learned their lesson and unanimously rescind this approval?
