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Bloomington Police Still Searching for Perpetrator in Home Invasions

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The Bloomington Police Department has yet to catch the masked man who terrorized Bloomington women in their homes and broke in through unlocked doors in the middle of the night last week. There were five reports of home invasions and attempted sexual assaults in Bloomington last week — although one of the home invasions was not included in the initial police statement.

That statement detailed four incidents, including one on South Henderson Street in which a woman woke up at 5 am Monday morning to a masked man in her home touching her leg.  When she pulled the mask off of his face, he ran. Bloomington Police Captain Steven Kellams said there was another incident which was left out of the initial statement, in which a woman was reportedly tied up, raped and robbed by a masked man at Knight’s Landing in Bloomington. That incident was reported at the same time as the home invasion on Henderson Street on Monday morning.

The police believe these incidents to be unrelated, meaning that there may be multiple perpetrators. Kellams commented on the multiple incidents, “She reported the masked man breaking into her home at a specific date and time; also at that specific date and time, we had a report on the south side of town – the complete opposite end of town – of an event taking place and that second event that happened the same time as the first one clearly was related to the others that happened later in the week.”

The police department believes the two incidents may be unrelated because they were reported at the same time and in different parts of the city, although both victims reported a man in a mask breaking into their homes. Kellams says he can’t discuss details of the investigation at this time, but he says the police department has increased patrols in the affected neighborhoods.

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