Bloomington resident Ian Thorpe was sentenced to 12 years in jail Monday after he pled guilty Sept. 10 to aggravated battery, a level 3 felony, and battery resulting in serious bodily injury, a level 5 felony.
Bloomington Police Department detectives found a stab-wound victim in the Wingate by Wyndam Hotel around 1:30 a.m. July 29, 2021, and detained three suspects attempting to flee the scene by vehicle. Detectives interviewed suspects, witnesses and the victim and consulted hotel security camera footage. This led them to dismiss two suspects and charge 28-year-old Thorpe with attempted murder, a level 1 felony, on July 30, 2021.
The probable cause affidavit said the victim in this case suffered a partially deflated lung and a chest wound.
Near the crime scene, detectives located Thorpe’s apparent bloodied clothes and a knife that matched witness and victim testimony and camera footage.
Thorpe served 1,180 days in pretrial detention for the 2021 attempted murder case. While there, police suspected he was involved in a battery crime that took place in a Monroe County jail cell May 19 of this year. That day, the victim was taken to IU Health Bloomington Hospital, and Thorpe was charged with battery resulting in a serious bodily injury.
The victim experienced face swelling and bleeding from an ear, as police described in charging documents.
On Sept. 10, he pled guilty to aggravated battery for the first case and battery resulting in a serious bodily injury for the second. Thorpe’s consecutive sentence, which began Oct. 2, involved nine years of incarceration for the first count and three years for the second. He has accrued 1,573 jail days toward his sentence from his 1,180 actual days served and 393 good time credit days.
