BLOOMINGTON – A Bloomington woman was sentenced to two years on house arrest after she pleaded guilty to a charge of criminal recklessness armed with a deadly weapon, a Level 5 felony, after a shooting on January 12, 2022, in the Crestmont neighborhood.
Monroe Circuit Court 5 Judge Mary Ellen Diekhoff sentenced 28-year-old Dalia Meyers to 730 days in the Indiana Department of Correction. Meyers was given one day credit for time served. The sentence was suspended to 728 days to be served on home detention. Judge Dikhoff ordered the firearm, ammunition, and accessories destroyed. Meyers was also ordered to pay restitution to the Bloomington Police Department in an amount that is yet to be determined for a camera she destroyed in an interview room and ordered to pay a court cost of $189.
A charge of criminal mischief was dropped.
The shooting happened just before 8:00 p.m. on January 12, 2022.
According to Bloomington Police, 29-year-old Amelia Callahan was found shot in the head in the backseat of a Jeep Cherokee on North Illinois Street. She was in the rear seat of a 2015 Jeep Cherokee with a shattered passenger-side window, police said. No one else was injured.
Investigators learned from witnesses about a van and car that sped off from the area immediately after the shooting.
Police tracked down Meyers, where she was arrested after an interview.
