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Yahoo
23-05-2025
- Yahoo
Officials ID victim of fatal crash on US 93
May 22—Authorities on Thursday identified the victim of a deadly May 17 crash in Lake County. Elmo resident Sunshine Swalley, 22, was killed in the collision on U.S. 93 near Big Arm, according to Lake County Sheriff Don Bell. According to the Highway Patrol crash report, Swalley was driving a Jeep Wrangler northbound on U.S. 93 at about 2:38 a.m. when she entered the southbound lane and collided head-on with a tanker trailer driven by a 50-year-old Kalispell man. Both vehicles caught fire and temporarily blocked the highway. Swalley died at the scene and the tanker driver was transported to a hospital with injuries. The circumstances of the crash remain under investigation by Montana Highway Patrol and the Lake County Coroner's Office. Road conditions were wet at the time of the crash, according to the Highway Patrol report.
Yahoo
20-05-2025
- Yahoo
Police: South Bend teen, 17, suspect in Gary homicide
After an argument broke out in a gray Ford Fusion, a 17-year-old teen from South Bend fatally shot a Gary man inside the vehicle, Gary Police said Monday. Officers responded at 1:39 a.m. Monday to 24th Avenue and Maryland Street for a shots fired call. Several people were standing around the victim, who was motionless and lying on the ground. The Lake County Coroner's Office identified him as Nadan Stallings, 21. His death was ruled a homicide. Toxicology tests and an autopsy are pending. Witnesses said a group had headed to Gary from Michigan City to smoke marijuana with a friend. After the shooting, the suspect ran but returned to the scene telling police he was shot, too. He was taken to the hospital, Gary Police Capt. Sam Roberts said in a release. Stallings was transported to Methodist Hospitals Northlake where he was pronounced dead. Anyone with more information can call the Lake County Prosecutor's Homicide Task Force at 219-755-3855. mcolias@
Chicago Tribune
20-05-2025
- Chicago Tribune
Police: South Bend teen, 17, suspect in Gary homicide
After an argument broke out in a gray Ford Fusion, a 17-year-old teen from South Bend fatally shot a Gary man inside the vehicle, Gary Police said Monday. Officers responded at 1:39 a.m. Monday to 24th Avenue and Maryland Street for a shots fired call. Several people were standing around the victim, who was motionless and lying on the ground. The Lake County Coroner's Office identified him as Nadan Stallings, 21. His death was ruled a homicide. Toxicology tests and an autopsy are pending. Witnesses said a group had headed to Gary from Michigan City to smoke marijuana with a friend. After the shooting, the suspect ran but returned to the scene telling police he was shot, too. He was taken to the hospital, Gary Police Capt. Sam Roberts said in a release. Stallings was transported to Methodist Hospitals Northlake where he was pronounced dead. Anyone with more information can call the Lake County Prosecutor's Homicide Task Force at 219-755-3855.
Yahoo
19-05-2025
- Yahoo
Police: Passenger dies Sunday in Union Township crash
A driver was seriously injured and his passenger died after a single-vehicle crash Sunday morning in Union Township when a vehicle struck a building, police said. Deputies from the Porter County Sheriff's Department were called around 7:05 a.m. May 18 for a report of a single-vehicle crash with injuries at the intersection of Ind. 130 and Park Avenue. Police found a 1994 Nissan Altima had struck a building near the intersection and the driver and passenger had to be extricated, according to a release from Sgt. Ben McFalls, public information officer for the sheriff's department. The male driver was flown to the University of Chicago Medicine in Chicago for his injuries and the female passenger later died after being transported to a hospital in Lake County; the Lake County Coroner's Office is handling that report and additional information was not immediately available. An initial investigation shows the car is believed to have been traveling westbound on Ind. 130 when it went off the roadway for an unknown reason and struck a building at the intersection with Park Avenue. Porter County Crash Reconstruction Unit is investigating.
Chicago Tribune
19-05-2025
- Chicago Tribune
Police: Passenger dies Sunday in Union Township crash
A driver was seriously injured and his passenger died after a single-vehicle crash Sunday morning in Union Township when a vehicle struck a building, police said. Deputies from the Porter County Sheriff's Department were called around 7:05 a.m. May 18 for a report of a single-vehicle crash with injuries at the intersection of Ind. 130 and Park Avenue. Police found a 1994 Nissan Altima had struck a building near the intersection and the driver and passenger had to be extricated, according to a release from Sgt. Ben McFalls, public information officer for the sheriff's department. The male driver was flown to the University of Chicago Medicine in Chicago for his injuries and the female passenger later died after being transported to a hospital in Lake County; the Lake County Coroner's Office is handling that report and additional information was not immediately available. An initial investigation shows the car is believed to have been traveling westbound on Ind. 130 when it went off the roadway for an unknown reason and struck a building at the intersection with Park Avenue. Porter County Crash Reconstruction Unit is investigating.
