


Gary

Gary Police are looking for a man who has been charged with shooting his ex-girlfriend’s boyfriend in the arm in a June 16 incident.
The woman, her boyfriend and cousin drove to a Dollar Tree at 23rd Avenue and Grant Street to pick up her son from Garland Jermaine Sistrunk, according to a probable cause affidavit. When they spotted Sistrunk’s car, the woman exited her cousin’s car as Sistrunk got out of his car and walked up to the passenger side of the cousin’s car, court records said.
The woman then heard a gunshot and her cousin sped away before stopping and letting her back in the car, according to the affidavit. She asked her boyfriend if he’d been shot, and when he said he had, the three rushed to Methodist Hospital’s Northlake campus in Gary.
The cousin later told police that Sistrunk was holding a black semi-automatic handgun, and when Sistrunk pointed the gun at the woman’s boyfriend, the cousin sped away, and Sistrunk fired off a shot that ultimately shattered the man’s arm, court records said.
The boyfriend was later airlifted to a Chicago hospital for treatment, court records said.
Sistrunk, who has a previous felony conviction for intimidation, has been charged with aggravated battery, a level 3 felony; battery by means of a deadly weapon, a level 5 felony; battery resulting in serious bodily injury, a level 5 felony, and criminal recklessness, a level 6 felony. His bond has been set at $50,000, according to court records.