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Jul 31, 2018 · LAFAYETTE, Ind. (AP) — Authorities have yet to name a suspect or make an arrest 20 years after someone attempted to bomb a northwestern Indiana courthouse with a stolen pickup truck full of...
- ‘Some Real Trouble’
- ‘Had We’D Know, We’D Never Gone In’
- ‘Lucky to Have A Courthouse at This Time’
- Changes at The Courthouse
The morning of Aug. 3, 1998, Butch Worthington got behind the wheel of a tandem dump truck filled with sand and the metal tank with the black powder. Recently retired from a career with the sheriff’s department, Worthington had recently started his job as Lafayette street commissioner. He wasn’t sure how much stock to put into whether the cylinder ...
The night before,Lafayette firefightershad no clue what they were up against when they responded to a 10:09 p.m. call about black smoke coming from the courthouse. According to accounts from that night, crews from Station 1 in downtown and Station 2 on Erie Street couldn’t find the source of the fire for 10 minutes, as they crawled on the courthous...
“We’re extremely lucky to have a courthouse at this time,” then-Sheriff Dave Murtaugh said the next morning. (Murtaugh wasn’t available for this article.) Damage was surprisingly limited. Ceilings in the first floor hallway were scorched. A payphone and a light fixture melted from the heat. Diesel fuel seeped into the floor, doing a number on the t...
Mentions of that night still sends shudders through downtown and historic preservation circles. “It’s the heart of your downtown and would have been devastating losing the beautiful historic structure,” said Shawna McCully, a board member with the Wabash Valley Trust for Historic Preservation. “It’s the focal point of our downtown and can be seen i...
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Jul 30, 2018 · LAFAYETTE, Ind. (AP) — Authorities have yet to name a suspect or make an arrest 20 years after someone attempted to bomb a northwestern Indiana courthouse with a stolen pickup truck full of drums of diesel fuel and gasoline. The Tippecanoe County Courthouse suffered about $200,000 in damage when the truck rammed through the glass doors of the ...
Jul 30, 2018 · The Lafayette Journal & Courier reports that the Tippecanoe County Courthouse suffered about $200,000 in damage when the truck rammed through the glass doors of the building’s entrance and caught fire on Aug. 2, 1998. No one was injured in the attempted bombing.
Jul 27, 2018 · Firefighters and police sealed off streets around the Tippecanoe County Courthouse late Sunday after a pickup truck apparently loaded with some type of fuel was driven into the east doors of...
Aug 2, 2018 · Thursday around 10 p.m. marks 20 years since someone drove a truck through the Tippecanoe County Courthouse with the intention of blowing it up.
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On Sunday, August 2, 1998, a stolen pickup truck was driven through the Fourth Street entrance to the Tippecanoe County Courthouse in Lafayette, Indiana. The truck contained both incendiary and improvised explosive devices; while smoke and water caused damage to the first floor of the courthouse, the explosive device failed to detonate.
