ARGOS — Indiana State Police said the driver of a truck that rear-ended a school bus in December, killing one student, was removing a jacket and a sweatshirt just before the collision.

A crash report released Wednesday said the truck driver was traveling behind the bus Dec. 5 when he “pulled the clothing over his head and briefly took his eyes off the roadway.”

The report says that when the driver looked up he was unable to avoid rear-ending the bus, killing 13-year-old Owen Abbott, of Winimac along U.S. 31.

The bus was carrying students from the Eastern Pulaski school district to see a Christmas musical.

The crash report was forwarded to Marshall County prosecutors to determine whether the trucker will face charges.

FORT WAYNE — Police in Indiana’s second-largest city have temporarily stopped using a type of neck restraint for subduing offenders, citing potential safety concerns.

The Fort Wayne Police Department announced Wednesday that it has suspended its officers’ use of the lateral vascular neck restraint.

Police spokesman Sgt. Jim Seay said the department started employing the restraint technique in October 2014 for use in subduing resistance, particularly violent resistance.

He told The Journal Gazette that the department stopped using the method due to potential safety concerns, but he declined to elaborate.

Seay said the restraint method isn’t a chokehold.

The department said in a statement that the neck restraint allows officers “to quickly, safely and efficiently take offenders into custody” and it has “historically a low probability of injury to the offender and officer.”

FORT WAYNE — The Fort Wayne Museum of Art has received a $1 million grant that will be used to buy artwork and care for pieces in the museum’s collection.

The grant announced this week is from the June E. Enoch Foundation and will establish the June E. Enoch Collection Fund for the museum in northeastern Indiana.

Enoch, a retired education professor, died in 2017 at age 95. She was a longtime museum member, volunteer and donor who also served as a museum board trustee.

The museum’s CEO Charles Shepard said in a statement that the gift “will allow us to continue to grow our collection in ways that are meaningful to our audiences.”

SOUTH BEND — Authorities said a lawyer who formerly worked in northern Indiana and was charged in December with scamming elderly investors has been arrested in Florida.

The FBI said Sven Eric Marshall, 61, was arrested Wednesday in Clearwater. He didn’t respond to earlier civil legal proceedings.

Marshall, formerly of South Bend, earlier was ordered to repay more than $2.5 million to clients. He is facing five counts of mail fraud. The U.S. attorney’s office has said Marshall ran an elder abuse scam through an investment company named Trust & Advisory Services of Indiana Inc.

Prosecutors said that starting in 1998 Marshall recruited elderly investors and promised returns of about 4-8 percent annually, but the company’s account was nearly empty by 2016. He allegedly stopped communicating with investors and closed his office.

—Associated Press