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The Bloomington Police Department arrested a man on Thursday for setting his car on fire to cover up his involvement in a hit-and-run. Police responded to reports of a vehicle fire at a home in the 3900 block of McDougal Street in Bloomington. Kyle May, 25, was charged with arson.  Authorities said May set his vehicle on fire and reported it stolen in an attempt to hide his involvement with several hit-and-run collisions earlier in the day.

Police say a 12-year-old Columbus boy hit a bullet cartridge with a hammer, firing a bullet that grazed a teenage girl. Columbus police Sgt. Matt Harris says the boy was playing with the live ammunition Wednesday night when he hit the cartridge on a sidewalk. The blow from the hammer ignited the primer and gunpowder. The 15-year-old girl told officers she was walking with friends when she heard the boy tell two other boys riding bicycles nearby to "watch this." She then felt something hit her neck. An ambulance was not called, but officers suggested she go to the hospital for an evaluation. The boy was taken to a juvenile detention center on a criminal recklessness charge.

Speedway police are searching for a suspect in the fatal shooting of a 30-year-old man early Friday at a Speedway gas station at 10th Street and Lynhurst Drive. Authorities say someone shot at two men inside a truck parked near a gas pump at the station. Passenger Tommy Thompson was struck by gunfire and pronounced dead at the scene by medics. Officers believe Thompson was at the Tremors nightclub at 111 N. Lynhurst Drive on Thursday night, and that the shooting might have resulted from an incident at the venue.