Elkhart Police Department

Dan Milanese has been Elkhart Police Chief for three years. He steps down as the community awaits the Elkhart County Homicide Unit's investigation into whether officers Thomas Breneman and Nicholas Ragdale were justified in fatally shooting 17-year-old Bryan Ramirez Gomez Feb. 8 at High Dive Pavilion Park.

Last month’s fatal shooting of a teenager by Elkhart police was one of the issues highlighted during Saturday’s No Kings rally.

The Elkhart Police Department has released the names of the officers who fatally shot a teenager last month at High Dive Park. Patrolman Thomas Breneman and Patrolman Nicholas Ragsdale both discharged their service weapons during the incident, according to an Elkhart police press release.

Elkhart police say an officer was investigating a suspicious vehicle parked at the High Dive Park Pavilion, just after 1:30 Sunday morning. About 13 minutes after the first officer arrived, police say two officers discharged their firearms.

"You don’t have to have a perfect history," Police Chief Dan Milanese told the Elkhart Board of Public Safety last week. "That’s not what we look for, but there are some significant things that people have in their past that we’re unable to rectify, when it comes to that background process in hiring."

A crowd of mostly police officers from area departments greeted the officers with applause Thursday as they walked out of Memorial Hospital in South Bend.

The victim in Sunday's fatal shooting in Elkhart has been identified.

Laura Koch will spend a year on probation and have her license suspended after she pleaded guilty to a DUI in April

Laura Koch, 53, was allegedly swerving and failed multiple sobriety tests when pulled over on County Road 17 on Monday.

Elkhart officials want to buy the old Chase building on Franklin Street for a new public safety building.