Student arrested at Kilroy’s after pointing loaded gun

A 21-year-old IU student was arrested after he used a loaded handgun to assault a man at Kilroy’s Sports Bar early Saturday morning.

Bloomington police Sgt. Jim Batcho said officers arrived at the bar around 2:45 a.m. Saturday and walked down an alley where they found Alexander Edward Brill with his hands in the air, surrounded by bar employees.

Brill told officers he had a loaded Smith & Wesson .45-caliber automatic handgun. An officer confiscated it, along with a magazine of bullets in Brill’s front left pocket and a knife in his front right pocket.

Sgt. Scott Oldham, who responded to the call, said the gun was fully loaded with a bullet in the chamber.

Batcho said Brill had an Indiana personal protection gun permit, which he was holding in his hand when officers arrived.

The majority of states have certain carry laws, which enable citizens to have a firearm in public as long as the individual has a valid permit and is not intoxicated, Oldham said.

Batcho said Brill is facing preliminary charges of battery while armed and intimidation with a deadly weapon, both Class C felonies, and pointing a firearm, a Class D felony.

Brill was at the bar when he starting talking to a woman he knew, Batcho read from the report. Brill told officers that five men approached him, verbally taunting and harassing him.

According to written witness statements gathered by the police, Brill pointed the gun at a female bar employee. When a man tried to intervene and diffuse the situation, Brill hit him with the weapon.

Brill told officers he was afraid and pulled the gun for protection. He said he had been injured in fights in Bloomington before.

— Vince Zito contributed reporting to this story.