Woman says God led her to van that fatally hit her son\nGREENWOOD, Ind. -- A woman says it was divine intervention that led her to find the van that authorities believe killed her 27-year-old son in an October hit-and-run.\nJoy English said she was driving to a store the night before Thanksgiving to buy Christmas flowers for her son's grave when she felt guided to turn into a mobile home park in the southern Indianapolis suburb a few miles from her home.\n"I went the long way ... and as I was driving, I had this urgent prompting to pull over -- pull over now!" she said Wednesday.\nShe said she was thinking of her son and crying as she listened to Christmas music when she saw a van that matched the description given by witnesses to the crash that killed her son and debris found at the scene.\nShe wrote down the van's license plate number and called police. On Tuesday, a call from Marion County sheriff's Sgt. Doug Heustis confirmed her hunch.\nHe told her, "You found your son's killer," English said, recalling the conversation.\nIsrael Cardenas, 19, of Greenwood, was arrested Tuesday on a preliminary charge of failure to stop after an accident causing death and driving while his license was suspended.\nHe was being held Thursday in the Marion County Jail under $15,000 bond, a jail officer said.\nBradley English, 27, was fatally injured Oct. 26 when a hit-and-run driver struck him as he rode his bicycle about 7 p.m. along a street on the south side of Indianapolis.\nMarion County Sheriff's Capt. Phil Burton said Heustis compared pieces of crash debris to Cardenas' van. "They fit like a puzzle," Burton said.
Fort Wayne police delay purchase of Taser weapons\nFORT WAYNE -- City police officials said they would delay buying 83 stun guns until they complete more research into their safety.\nThe Fort Wayne Police Department planned to buy the Taser guns early next year, but that has been put on hold indefinitely, a department spokesman said.\nIn nearby Angola, however, city officers will have the weapons on patrol next year, Chief Jon Parrish said.\n"It's full steam ahead for us," Parrish said.\nHe said he knew other departments were postponing using the weapons, but Angola would not.\nThe Alexandria Police Department in central Indiana also said this week it planned to add the stun guns to its arsenal, and several other departments also use the weapons.\nFort Wayne police spokesman Michael Joyner said the U.S. Department of Justice has contacted police departments with information on the stun guns. The guns have been under scrutiny because they can cause severe injury and even death.\nIn Indiana, the family of Monroe County Jail inmate James Borden, who died in 2003 after a jailer shocked him with a Taser gun, is suing the county. Prosecutors have charged the jailer with felony counts of battery with a deadly weapon and battery causing serious bodily injury.\nThe guns produce an electric current transmitted to the target by way of an air cartridge. When the current zaps a person's body, muscles contract, weakening the person.\n"After reviewing some information, we had reason to want to step back and re-evaluate the Taser as a tool," Joyner said.\nTaser International has defended its product, which thousands of police agencies have issued to their officers. The company claims the stun guns have saved more than 4,000 lives since 1999 by giving police officers a non-lethal way to subdue violent people.\nThe Taser guns would cost Fort Wayne police $86,482. Officer Tim Hannon spent nearly two years researching how, if used properly, the guns can be an effective tool for police in subduing suspects.\nHannon had said the department found the stun guns were not dangerous when used properly.
