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A sixth idiosyncratic was arrested Wednesday successful transportation with the shooting of a justice and his wife successful their location successful Lafayette, Indiana, successful January, section officials said.
The Lafayette Police Department reported Wednesday nighttime that 23-year-old Nevaeh Bell was taken into custody successful the Jan. 18 shooting that wounded Tippecanoe County Superior Court Judge Steven Meyer and his wife, Kim.
Police said Bell faces 12 preliminary felony charges, including 2 counts of attempted execution and a number of conspiracy to perpetrate murder.
Five others were arrested past month aft what the Lafayette Police Department called "a coordinated, multi-state cognition involving hundreds of investigative hours."
They were identified arsenic 38-year-old Raylen Ferguson and 61-year-old Zenada Greer of Kentucky, arsenic good arsenic Indiana residents Thomas Moss, 43, Blake Smith, 32, and 45-year-old Amanda Milsap.
Police person accused members of a motorcycle club and a thoroughfare pack of targeting Meyer, alleging the shooting was portion of a strategy to derail a home maltreatment lawsuit against Moss, a subordinate of the Detroit-based Phantom MC motorcycle nine with ties to the Vice Lords thoroughfare gang.
Moss was charged with aggregate convulsive felonies successful June 2024 and was retired connected bond, according to tribunal records, which besides amusement that helium was scheduled to spell connected proceedings successful beforehand of Meyer connected Jan. 20 — 2 days aft the shooting took place.
FILE -- Steven Meyer, a authorities justice successful Tippecanoe County successful Indiana, who was wounded successful a shooting astatine his location connected Jan. 18, 2026. This photograph is from Nov. 4, 2014.
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Meyer and his wife, Kim, were changeable astatine their home. Steven Meyer suffered an wounded to his arm, and Kimberly Meyer sustained an wounded to her hip, according to police.
According to a signaling of the exigency dispatch operator, the caller who reported the shooting said determination was a sound connected the door, idiosyncratic told them we person your dog, and past a changeable came done the door.
Kim Meyer said successful a connection past period that she and her hubby person "great confidence" successful the Lafayette constabulary probe and thanked each the agencies involved.
"We are besides incredibly grateful for the outpouring of enactment from the community; everyone has been truthful benignant and compassionate," she said. "We would particularly similar to convey the aesculapian unit who provided attraction and assistance to america pursuing the incident."
Adam Harrington and Sarah Lynch Baldwin contributed to this report.
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