Partygoers told police that someone was brandishing a knife near a door to the house and was barred from coming in.
(Steve Burns)
Tuesday update:
Two seventeen-year-olds from Bloomington are in custody at juvenile detention centers in connection with a stabbing at a Halloween party over the weekend, according to Bloomington Police.
No arrests were made when police arrived early Saturday morning at a party near IU’s campus and found a 19-year-old man bleeding heavily from his forearm, according to police. Attendees said he’d been stabbed.
Partygoers told police that someone was brandishing a knife near a door to the house and was barred from coming in. Then the person with the knife and others kicked the door down, forcing their way in, and fought with people in the living room, police said. The person with the knife stabbed someone and fled.
A 20-year-old party-attendee was cut above the eye, but it’s not known if the cut came from the knife.
On Monday, BPD released an image of someone believed to be involved in kicking the door down. Tips came in, and the person was identified as a 17-year-old from Bloomington. Police brought him in for questioning.
He was sent to the juvenile probation department and then a juvenile detention center. But police say he is not the one who stabbed the 19-year-old at the party.
Police say they located a different 17-year-old believed to be responsible for the stabbing and brought him in for questioning. He was also sent to the juvenile probation department and then a juvenile detention center.
The first 17-year-old is being held on charges of burglary, intimidation with a deadly weapon, and battery resulting in injury.
The second 17-year brought in, suspected of the stabbing, is held on charges of burglary, aggravated battery, and battery with a deadly weapon.
Original story 10/31/2022
A culprit is still at large after the Friday night stabbing of a 19-year-old man at a Halloween party near the IU campus on North Dunn Street.
Police arrived at the party around 12:35 a.m. to find the stabbing victim with his left forearm wrapped in a shirt and bleeding profusely.
Partygoers told investigators that he had been stabbed by a college-age white man who had previously been kicked out for causing problems.
The stabber returned to the back entrance, brandishing a large knife. Witnesses said the man began to fight with other guests before stabbing the victim and fleeing. One 20-year-old guest had a laceration above his eye, but police said they were unsure whether it was inflicted by the man with the knife.
Bloomington police released a photo Monday on their Facebook page of a person of interest: a white man with shoulder-length brown hair, a sweatshirt and a light-colored beanie.
Police asked anyone with information about this individual to contact (812) 349-3318 or email rodgersj@bloomington.in.gov.
