Homicide

Emerson Evans, 31, appeared before Judge Amy McFarland Monday afternoon for a pretrial detention hearing on two counts of intentional homicide of an unborn child. Prosecutors argued Evans should be held in McLean County Jail awaiting trial; McFarland agreed.

A 31-year-old man from Normal was charged Saturday with causing the intentional homicide of an unborn child, after allegedly sneaking the abortion pill mifepristone to his girlfriend in Bloomington without her consent.

Luis A. Monroy, 18, is charged as an adult in the 2023 fatal stabbing of Nicholas Zapata. He plans to change his plea to guilty.

A large crowd filled North Lee Street in Bloomington for a candlelight vigil Monday night, sharing memories and releasing balloons in front of the home where four people were found dead over the weekend.

Bloomington Police investigators were looking for answers Monday after four people – including a 13-year-old – were found dead at a home over the weekend. WGLT spoke to the family of two of the victims.

Levi Blair, 39, was formerly a Mt. Hope-Funks Grove Fire Protection District captain and a graduate of Olympia High School in Stanford.

A man from the Chicago area has received a sentence of 123 years in prison for his role in a fatal shooting that occurred on the west side of Bloomington in 2020.

Two people were fatally shot inside a home in northeast Normal early Wednesday, authorities said. Police said it was an apparent murder-suicide.

McLean County authorities said Thursday that they're investigating this week's discovery of a body in a ditch as a homicide. They also identified the victim was Ronald W. Thrasher Jr., 48, of Bloomington.

A Minnesota man, Kentrell Brown, was sentenced to 80 years in prison Tuesday for the 2021 murder of Natwan Nash.