Goshen

One man dead. Three people injured. Four people in jail.  It's all the outcome of a fight turned deadly late Thursday night in Goshen. Daniel Heflin, 21, of Goshen is accused of murder.  His mother talked with WSBT Friday morning. Sherry Heflin said someone went to her son's home and asked him and his girlfriend, Elisa Horton, to help with a fight happening at an apartment complex in the 600 blk of River Ave. She claimed someone told her son a 17-year-old girl was being beaten by a family member.  "They came to help, that's all they did," Sherry Heflin told WSBT.  Art Vargas said he witnessed the incident from his front porch across the street.  "There were shots fired and that's when I went back in and told my wife, 'You need to get somebody out here because I thought I heard some gunshots.  This is escalating really quick,'" he recalled.

GOSHEN - Are you looking for a job? Maybe today is your lucky day. A hiring event is taking place today in Goshen. The event features 24 area employers looking to hire right now. It starts at 10 a.m. and goes until 2 p.m. at the Old Bag Factory in Goshen. Organizers say have your resume ready and dress professionally. The jobs range from general labor to professional.  

GOSHEN - Repairs to a Goshen park pavilion damaged in a spring arson will take longer than expected. The Rogers Park Pavilion was heavily damaged by fire back in March. Two Goshen men have been arrested in the case. The fire caused more damage to the pavilion than first thought, severely damaging several support columns. Recent strong winds generated by Hurricane Sandy held up repair work for several days. Crews hope to wrap up their work in the next few weeks.

The Goshen City Council gave final approval Tuesday night for a ten-year tax abatement for Benteler Automotive. The company is working on a $32 million expansion project at its plant on Eisenhower Drive, which will create 98 new jobs. The average wage for a new worker there will be $48,000

GOSHEN - Crews are currently on the scene of a propane leak in Goshen. According to dispatch, a 500 gallon tank of propane spilled in the area of Logan Street, off of State Road 4. As a result, several roads are closed at this time: 9th and Logan, Logan and Monroe and 11th and Madison. Only the building at which this occurred has been evacuated at this time. A Haz-Mat crew is on the scene. We have a crew heading there now and we will bring you updates as soon as they become available.

MedFlight was dispatched to an accident on County Road 22 in Elkhart County after a man drover into a tree. This happened in Goshen just before 11 Tuesday night near the Middlebury city limits. Police tell us the man was flown to the hospital in an unconscious state. Stay with WSBT on air and online for updates.

GOSHEN - A Goshen firefighter was hurt fighting a house fire Monday morning when he fell off a ladder. According to Goshen fire Captain Bruce Nethercutt, a neighbor saw smoke coming from the second floor of a home in the 1400 block of S. 12th Street. The injured firefighter, who has not been identified, was taken to IU Health Goshen Hospital where he was treated and released. No one was home at the time of the fire. Two of three family cats were found unharmed.

GOSHEN - Firefighters in Goshen practiced their water rescue techniques and boat handling. And as we get closer to summer, more people will be hitting the local water ways. All members of the fire department are required to update their skills out on the water with this training. Like fighting a fire, they have to be prepared for anything on the water ways. “Both situations, fire ground and water rescue, are very dynamic,” said Goshen Fire Captain Steffen Schrock.

GOSHEN, Ind. (AP) — A documentary made up of video taken by those living in the city of Goshen is set for its TV premiere this weekend. The "Our Town: Goshen" documentary will air Sunday on public television station WNIT of South Bend. The Elkhart Truth reports 24 people contributed video, choosing what they wanted to highlight and talking about its significance. City forester Aaron Sawatsky-Kingsley says he shot video of trees and wooded areas around the community, hoping to show what they area was like 2,000 years ago and why Goshen is called the Maple City.

A late-night meth lab find in a Goshen residence required cleanup by the Indiana State Police Meth Suppression Unit. The Elkhart County Sheriff’s Department was called to a residence in the 15000 block of County Road 44 at 10:30 p.m. Thursday. Members of the ISP’s meth unit remained on the scene as of 5 a.m. Friday. An Elkhart County emergency services dispatch supervisor said two people had been taken into custody.

Protecting you - That's Goshen's goal as they try to find any underground vaults downtown. Goshen hired a company called Blood Hound Underground. It uses ground-penetrating radar to search under sidewalks for the vaults. The city hopes to determine if there are more of them after a business owner fell through a sidewalk after it collapsed last year. The city has already found 49 underground vaults. They were once used to lower goods into businesses, but have since been covered.

Goshen schools are considering getting rid of their bus routes altogether. At a school board meeting tonight, a study group recommended several changes to help deal with a million dollar budget shortfall. The short term solutions include eliminating field trips, expanding walk zones and changing the start and end times for all schools. But they are also considering getting rid of all bus routes in 3 years. The school board will discuss that option at its next meeting on May 28.

GOSHEN - Firefighters in Goshen practiced their water rescue techniques and boat handling. And as we get closer to summer, more people will be hitting the local water ways. All members of the fire department are required to update their skills out on the water with this training. Like fighting a fire, they have to be prepared for anything on the water ways. “Both situations, fire ground and water rescue, are very dynamic,” said Goshen Fire Captain Steffen Schrock.

GOSHEN - Goshen is kicking off a community wide program to help beautify the Maple City. As part of the program, people are allowed to drop off everything from old appliances, computers, tires, furniture, microwaves, old TVs and refrigerators at the Street Department. In past years, especially during spring cleaning season, those items would somehow wind up in alleys, ditches, or empty lots. “We're constantly getting stuff, picked up whether it's out of the ditch lines,” said Denny Long of the Goshen Street Department.

A Goshen firefighter who puts his life on the line to help those in need is now himself in need. Scott Thomas has served seven years as a firefighter and paramedic with the Goshen Fire Department. Last week, he was diagnosed with a stage 2 cancerous brain tumor. Scott, who works in Goshen but lives in Warsaw, is expecting a new baby. With surgery to remove the cancerous tumor plus chemotherapy ahead, and time off work, his friend and fellow firefighter Jeremy Williams set up a diaper drive.

An update to a shooting in Goshen we told you about last week. At this time the Elkhart County prosecutor is NOT filing charges in what police described as a gang-related drive-by shooting. Goshen Police arrested 19-year-old Diego Ramos, 16-year-old Abraham Delgado, 16-year-old Christian Bueno,16-year-old Alejandro Bueno and a 15-year-old last week. The shooting happened last Sunday at School and Middlebury Streets in Goshen. One person was shot in the arm and another in the stomach.

GOSHEN - 5 teenagers are behind bars for a drive-by shooting this past weekend in Goshen, a shooting police say was gang-related. Around 9:30 p.m. Sunday, officers were called to the corner of School and Middlebury Streets after four people were shot. Police say a group of people, including the 4 victims, were outside the home of 18-year-old Juan Deigo Rodriguez, one of those who was shot. Two cars approached the group when gunshots were fired. The investigation into the crime has led to the arrests of five people, ranging in age from 15 to 19 . Diego Ramos , 19, of Elkhart is charged with attempted murder and criminal gang activity Abraham Delgado , 16, of Goshen is charged with conspiracy to commit murder, criminal gang activity and assisting a criminal Christian Bueno , 16, of Goshen, is charged with conspiracy to commit murder and criminal gang activity Alejandro Bueno , 16, of Goshen, is charged with conspiracy to commit murder, criminal gang activity and assisting a criminal The 15-year-old boy arrested was in the Elkhart County Juvenile Center pending a Tuesday hearing.

GOSHEN - Police are confirming it was a drive-by shooting that injured 4 people Sunday night in Goshen. Around 9:30 p.m., officers were called to IU Health Goshen after shots were fired at the corner of School and Middlebury Streets. Police learned a group of people, including the 4 victims, were outside the home of Juan Deigo Rodriguez, 18, one of the shooting victims. Two cars approached the intersection where the group was, and somebody in one of the vehicles opened fire.

GOSHEN - People who live in Goshen know you can hear train horns around the clock, but a new study is looking at whether it's possible to silence those horns along a stretch of tracks near 9 th Street. Jeannie Petry is all too familiar with putting up with train horns. She lives on the east side of Goshen by the tracks along 9 th St. where daily Norfolk Southern horns are a fact of life. “Every hour, you know there's a train coming, so you're going to hear them whistles every stop along the way here, and it's until that train gets past that you do hear it,” said Petry.

GOSHEN - Police say suicide was the cause of a deadly train-pedestrian collision in Goshen that killed a New Paris man Sunday night. Goshen police say shortly before 8 p.m., officers learned about a pedestrian who was struck by a freight train on the Norfolk Southern tracks in the area of 1st Street and River Avenue. Investigators say the train was headed east about 50 miles per hour when it hit and killed 39-year-old Thomas Griffis. Police believe alcohol consumption on the part of Griffis played a role in the incident.