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Joshua Livingston of Danvers faces murder charges in Melissa Ostrom's death in April.

Joshua Livingston is accused of killing Melissa Ostrom on April 17, about a month after he was arrested on domestic battery charges that named Ostrom as the victim.

Michael Bakana was found guilty in May of killing Mariah Petracca of Bloomington, and wounding another woman, Bibi Cornejo, also of Bloomington, outside Daddios bar on North Main Street.

McLean County sheriff's police say a man who had eluded police for two months after being charged with murder is now in custody.

Sentencing was delayed Thursday for Michael Bakana, who was convicted of killing one woman and severely injuring another in a January 2021 shooting in downtown Bloomington.

Bloomington Police served murder warrants on Thursday for the arrest of 26-year-old Osman “Gudda” McLaurin for the killing of Geoffrey Rowry on Nov. 4, 2021.

Desmond Sterling, 23, was formally charged with three counts of first-degree murder in connection with the fatal shooting of Kiejoun Watts, 20, of Bloomington.

Joshua D. Livingston, 41, of Danvers, was in McLean County court Thursday on first-degree murder charges in Melissa Ostrom’s death.

Barton McNeil was convicted of in the 1998 death of his 3-year-old daughter, Christina. McNeil has denied any involvement in the child’s death. He has urged Bloomington police to investigate his former girlfriend, Misook Nowlin, a woman with a history of violence and child abuse, as a possible suspect.

Bloomington Police say they captured the juvenile male after a foot chase outside the Target store on Monday.