South Bend Police Department

South Bend Police say school security measures and a quick-acting school resource officer kept an armed man out of Adams High School

A South Bend student was arrested Friday morning for allegedly bringing a gun into Riley High School.

In a statement, police spokeswoman Ashley O’Chap said officers responded to a report of an active shooter at the school around 12:30 p.m., but that no threat actually existed.

According to the department's quarterly public safety update, there have been 735 gun violence incidents so far, around a 19 percent decrease from how things stood at this time in 2021.

South Bend Police say a Washington High School student was arrested Thursday after a handgun was found in their backpack.

The South Bend Police Department says it has detained a juvenile in connection with a Tuesday incident where a gun was fired on a South Bend Community School Corporation bus.

One man is in custody following a standoff with police that continued for several hours in South Bend Sunday.

A South Bend Police Department officer will serve no prison time after pleading guilty to one felony count of child seduction and one count of official misconduct this July as part of a deal with prosecutors.

The announcement came during a Tuesday community action group meeting where members of the public shared ideas on how to improve mental health crisis response procedures.

Kittrell was armed and in the midst of a mental health crisis when South Bend police shot and killed him late last month.