A transient man was charged with six felonies after a shooting in Bloomington Tuesday afternoon left one man hospitalized with a gunshot wound.
Bloomington police responded to a call in the 1500 block of West Kirkwood around 5:20 p.m. Tuesday from a person who said they heard a possible gun shot and a man yelling he had been shot, according to a news release.
Officers found the 42-year-old victim with a gunshot wound to his upper chest near the Wheeler Mission in the 200 block of South Westplex Ave. He was taken to an area hospital where he was listed in stable condition.
Investigators determined the man had been shot in the backyard of a residence on West Kirkwood. The victim reportedly had been in an argument with a woman when a man, identified later as 49-year-old Lewis Robert Siegrist, “approached him and shot him with a handgun.” The victim told police the man had stolen his cellphone, so he began walking toward Westplex Ave.
According to the release, police later identified Siegrist as the subject and determined that he had fled to a residence in Spencer. Police began surveillance of the residence, and at about 1:50 a.m. Wednesday, Siegrist was arrested without incident at a gas station in the 700 block of West Morgan St. in Spence. Police said at the time of the arrest, Siegrist was carrying a 9mm handgun.
Siegrist was taken back to Bloomington, where he was charged with six felonies, including attempted murder and robbery while armed with a deadly weapon.
