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New York Post
29-05-2025
- New York Post
Mother shoots convicted child molester as he tried to rape 12-year-old daughter at hotel: reports
A mother shot and wounded a convicted child molester after she found him allegedly trying to rape her 12-year-old daughter inside an Indianapolis motel room Saturday, according to reports. The mother walked in on Bruce Pierce, of Indianapolis, allegedly on top of her child as the preteen repeatedly said no, leading up to the gunfire at the Baymont Inn, court documents state. The young victim's grandmother told police that Pierce had been talking with the 12-year-old online and over the phone, trying to persuade her to leave town with him, according to the documents obtained by WTHR Wednesday. Advertisement Bruce Pierce was arrested and charged with several charges including attempted rape and attempted child molestation. Indiana Sex Offender Registry The day of the shooting, the victim and her sister woke up their grandmother when their mother didn't come home. They went to the inn, where they found the mom and Pierce in the lobby. At one point, the girl was left alone in the room with Pierce while the mother and sister took items to the car because the preteen wasn't feeling well, the documents state. Advertisement Pierce took the opportunity to allegedly pin her arms to the bed and start ripping some of her clothes before the mother burst in, the documents state. The young victim was able to get away as the mother opened fire on Pierce, who also allegedly had a gun in his hand, according to the docs. Mother and daughter fled the hotel with their other relatives in the car and called police. Pierce was taken to a nearby hospital for treatment, but is not yet in custody, according to the station. Advertisement The shooting took place at the Baymont Inn in Indianapolis, Indiana on May 24, 2025. Google maps He facing charges of attempted rape, attempted child molestation, unlawful possession of a firearm and confinement, Fox 59 reported. A warrant was issued for his arrest. He pleaded guilty to past child molesting charges in 2016, the outlets reported. Advertisement The victim was also treated at a children's hospital because she was allegedly hit by the suspect's gun. It's unclear why the mother and Pierce were in the hotel lobby before the shooting.
New York Post
27-05-2025
- New York Post
Pacers fan allegedly stabbed Knicks supporter at Indiana brewery during playoff game
A Pacers fan has been charged after he was accused of stabbing a Knicks fan at a Carmel, Ind., brewery during Game 2 of the Eastern Conference finals Friday night. An employee at Danny Boy Beer Works told cops that Jarrett Funke, 24, left the brewery after a fight only to return and stab a man in the back, according to Fox 59. Advertisement According to News 8, that man also suffered a minor lung tear and a broken rib, while a second man suffered a leg laceration from falling. Both men were 'bleeding profusely,' according to the report. The alleged victims said Funke 'smacked' a Knicks hat off one of the fans. Funke then allegedly yelled, 'F–k you, you still have a f–king problem. Take this outside,' as he was taken away from the Knicks supporters by his father. As the Knicks fans were on a patio, they alleged that Funke 'stormed through the fence' to attack them. One of the alleged victims said he 'briefly displayed a black folding pocket knife to deter (Funke) but repocketed it, as he had no intention of using it,' per Fox 59. Jarrett Funke of Carmel, Ind. has been charged after allegedly stabbing a Knicks fan during a fight at a brewery. Hamilton County Sheriff's Office Advertisement Funke told cops that the Knicks fans started the altercation by 'talking s–t' with one of them, pushing him to the ground and punching him in the face, but witnesses told police Funke was the 'primary aggressor.' Follow The Post's coverage of the Knicks in the 2025 NBA Playoffs Sports+ subscribers: Sign up for Inside the Knicks to get daily newsletter coverage and join Expert Take for insider texts about the series. Funke was charged with battery by means of a deadly weapon, battery resulting in a serious bodily injury and criminal recklessness committed with a deadly weapon, according to court documents viewed by The Post. The first two charges are level 5 felonies and the third is a level 6 felony. Advertisement He was being held in Hamilton County Jail with no bond set as of early Tuesday, with a hearing scheduled for the afternoon. Knicks players huddle during Game 3 against the Pacers on May 25, 2025. Charles Wenzelberg / New York Post The Knicks will attempt to tie the series in Indianapolis on Tuesday night in Game 4.
Yahoo
15-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
'I Am Completely Dead Now': Indiana Man Pens His Own Obituary Before Fatal Crash in Self-Made Plane
72-year-old Gary Wolfelt wrote his own comedic obituary before dying in a plane crash earlier this month The Indiana man crashed his self-made plane in Ohio on May 5 Wolfelt wrote that he had many near misses in his life, stating, 'I am surprised that it took this long to happen.'A man from Indiana wrote his own comedic obituary before dying in a plane crash earlier this month. According to Fox59, 72-year-old Gary Wolfelt crashed his self-made plane in Ohio on May 5. Although he didn't know he would pass away in the crash, he explained in his orbit that he had had many near-death experiences in his life. 'I am completely dead now,' he wrote in an obit published on May 8 — three days after he died. 'I am surprised that it took this long to happen.' 'I had several close calls throughout my lifetime. I guess that I was just lucky that something didn't get me long before now,' he added. Never miss a story — sign up for to stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer, from juicy celebrity news to compelling human interest stories. Wolfelt said there was a 'long series of events and mishaps' that 'should have killed me long ago.' This included a baseball landing on his forehead in grade school, his sister's horse kicking him in the gut, being hit by a car and a large brick chimney nearly falling on him. 'In my fifties, I got knocked down nineteen stairs at my office by a couple of hundred pound concrete lined safe which landed on top of me and pinned me to the floor,' he added. 'That one was the worst! I didn't get any body parts broken and no internal injuries.' ! Wolfelt continued that after falling from a scaffold and cracking his head in his sixties, he was forced to go to the doctors, who discovered that he had prostate cancer. While the cancer was found early, Wolfelt's needed to have his prostate removed in his early seventies. 'The surgery went well. But then I developed an internal leak that nearly killed me,' he said. 'I cannot tell you here what sort of event actually killed me as I wrote this obituary before I was completely dead. Someone else will have to fill in the details later on I guess," he continued. is now available in the Apple App Store! Download it now for the most binge-worthy celeb content, exclusive video clips, astrology updates and more! Wolfelt went on to apologize to anyone he may have 'offended or mistreated" during his life, "especially Anoma Hargis in the sixth grade.' He also took time to appreciate his wife Esther Chosnek — whom he married in 1982 — for being 'nice to me most all of the time, even when I spent the grocery money on tools and airplane parts.' Highlighting his life achievements, he wrote, 'I stayed lovingly married to the same woman for a long time. I cut about 100 cords of firewood. I fixed a lot of problems for a lot of people over the last fifty years.' 'I paid all of my bills with my own earnings. I only took welfare (Social Security) after I retired,' he continued, 'I would like to thank those of you who loved me while I was here on Earth. It really meant a lot to me. And I appreciate your letting me love you right back.' At the end of the obit, Wolfelt's wife Chosnek added that 'it took him 17 years to build his beloved Express Aircraft.' Wolfelt is survived by his wife, brother, sister, two brothers-in-law, and 'several nieces and nephews.' Read the original article on People
Indianapolis Star
06-05-2025
- Business
- Indianapolis Star
Fishers, Carmel don't think renters deserve single-family homes
Hamilton County cities are scapegoating Wall Street so they can award affluent buyers and existing homeowners with exclusive access to single-family houses and keep away unsavory renters. City officials in Fishers and Carmel argue it's necessary to ban renters from subdivisions where single-family homes hit 10% renter-occupied. It's every American's right to treat shelter as a financial instrument, they argue. If we can't all leverage hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt to purchase a home in hopes that it behaves like a mutual fund, are we even a country? 'That's been a part of the middle class kind of American Dream for a long, long time,' Fishers Mayor Scott Fadness said, per Fox59. "We're just simply trying to put policies in place that would protect it.' First Fishers, now Carmel The Fishers City Council on April 21 unanimously approved a 10% rental cap. Now, Carmel is taking up the crackdown on renters, with City Council President Adam Aasen echoing Fadness. Need a break? Play the USA TODAY Daily Crossword Puzzle. 'There are a lot of people who are renting, who want to buy, and they just can't find homes for sale,' Aasen said, per IndyStar. 'When they do find reasonably priced homes ... they're outbid by a corporate investor who wants to turn it into a rental.' The problem, in this view, is that Wall Street firms are treating homes as investments, making it more difficult for individual buyers to … treat homes as investments. Briggs: The Braun-Beckwith plan to abolish Carmel Wall Street isn't the actual target here. Fishers and Carmel are making a qualitative distinction between homeowners and renters as resident classes. Proponents of single-family rental caps say homeowners take pride in their properties while renters neglect them, causing houses to fall into disrepair and dragging down neighborhood values. City officials avoid directly disparaging renters by blaming the ills on out-of-town landlords. This is where the logic gets tortured. The pro-rental cap theory is that investors are making housing unaffordable by bidding up prices and buying all the homes while simultaneously causing property values to fall by letting them go to hell. So, which is it? Are the investors causing prices to go up? Or down? Wrapping your mind around these mutually exclusive claims can feel a little like circling the roundabout at 96th Street and Allisonville Road until you crash. Ban, baby, ban! The most generous interpretation of these 10% rental caps is to view them as a response to bad landlords letting properties fall into disrepair and forcing tenants to live in poor conditions. This is a real problem, and I've reported on it extensively. I can't believe I have to say this next part, but I guess I do. The solution to bad landlords isn't to ban rental housing. That's like saying the solution to drunken driving is to bring back Prohibition. Instead, cities should enforce housing codes and penalize landlords that violate them. Of course, Indiana doesn't let cities do that. When Indianapolis tried to crack down on derelict property owners in 2020, the Indiana General Assembly responded with strict legislation preventing cities from regulating landlords. Briggs: Mike Braun got suckered into a tax-cut promise he couldn't keep Landlords hold all the power in Indiana, and neither tenants nor cities can do anything about it. It is ironic, then, that the Indiana General Assembly in April briefly considered a measure that would nullify rental caps like the one Fishers passed and Carmel is considering. Cities want to ban rental housing because the legislature bans them from regulating landlords, so now lawmakers want to ban cities from banning single-family rentals. That about sums up the relationships between municipalities and state government in Indiana. 10% caps make the housing problem worse Of course, this isn't a story about landlords or Wall Street. Homeowners don't want to share neighborhoods with renters, so Fishers and Carmel are codifying their preference and justifying it by tapping into the moral panic over institutional property owners. This obsession is disingenuous. Based on Carmel's figures, only about 2% of the city's housing stock is owned by institutional investors. Investors are neither juicing nor destroying home values. They're one out of a hundred factors influencing housing economics. If you want to look deeper, then we can also talk about how building costs are rising and interest rates are higher than they used to be. Lending approvals are tightening, making homeownership available only to people with high incomes, down payment cash and excellent credit. As I wrote in March, the average homebuyer age hit 56 last year, according to the National Association of Realtors. Increasingly, the only single-family housing option for young families is renting. Fishers and Carmel are making desirable single-family subdivisions inaccessible to those families — something they might want to be wary of as Hamilton Southeastern Schools is suddenly soliciting students from outside of the district to combat falling enrollment. Housing is unaffordable because we don't have enough of it. It's that simple. Restricting the pool of people who can occupy homes in Fishers and Carmel will reduce the incentive for builders to construct new housing, because there will be fewer people who qualify to live in them, exacerbating the supply problem while pushing renters into communities that value them, like Brownsburg. If you don't want renters, fine. Just say that. Don't ban them and pretend you're doing it to protect the American Dream. The only thing Fishers and Carmel are protecting is homeowner exclusivity.
Yahoo
05-05-2025
- Yahoo
Dad Who Held Gun to Ex's Head and Forced Her to 'Choose Between' Herself and Son Learns Fate
Kaylah Farmer's mother and two sisters provided an emotional message to her killer in court last week, telling the ex-husband who stalked and shot her at an Indiana gas station that he will be forever 'erased' from their lives and 'forgotten.'Joshua Farmer was sentenced to 80 years in prison for the June 2023 murder, according to local WTHR. Farmer, 32, pleaded guilty to the murder in March, according to The Current. Local Fox 59 had reported that Hamilton County prosecutors originally sought the death sentence against Farmer for killing the mother of three. "No sentence will ever bring her back or erase the pain we live with every single day,' Tracey Walser, the mother of Kaylah Farmer, told the court last week, according to WTHR. 'But a just sentence can help us begin to heal. It can allow us to finally take a step forward knowing that the person responsible has been held accountable." Kaylah's sister Kassie Adkins testified that her sister's 'children will live with the reality that their father killed their mother,' according to the outlet. 'That will be the defining truth of their lives,' Adkins said. 'Their story will forever start with tragedy that they did not choose and didn't deserve." Alisha Landis, Kaylah's other sister, addressed Farmer directly, according to WTHR."This is the last time you will be acknowledged by me or by anyone in our family,' Landis said. 'Once this hearing is over, you will be erased from our lives. You have no children. You have no legacy. The boys you once knew do not speak your name and they never will. I will spend the rest of my life making sure you are forgotten. Gone. Bye bye. You will have no power here, not over me, not over Kaylah's children." A month prior to the June 2023 killing, prosecutors said Farmer punched and choked his ex-wife in front of their children. During the incident, Farmer held a gun to his ex-wife's head and demanded she 'choose between herself' and her child, WTHR previously reported, citing court documents. The child also told police that their mother attempted to call 911 but their father had 'taken her phone from her.' One month later, Farmer followed his ex-wife to a local gas station and shot her 15 times through her car window while she waited at a gas pump. His sentencing last week reflected charges from both incidents, according to WTHR. Want to keep up with the latest crime coverage? Sign up for for breaking crime news, ongoing trial coverage and details of intriguing unsolved cases. Farmer did not provide a statement in court last week with his ex-wife's family and friends sitting in the courtroom, according to the outlet. "I don't have anything to say,' he said. If you are experiencing domestic violence, call the National Domestic Violence Hotline at 1-800-799-7233, or go to All calls are toll-free and confidential. The hotline is available 24/7 in more than 170 languages. Read the original article on People
