Bloomington man accused of beating unhoused man in vacant apartment during storm

Antwaun Dupree Jordan booking photo

Staff report

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. — July 8, 2026

An unhoused Bloomington man has been charged after police said he invited another unhoused man to stay in a vacant apartment where he was squatting during severe weather, then held him at knifepoint and beat him so badly that he suffered life-threatening head trauma.

Antwaun Dupree Jordan, 34, is charged in Monroe Circuit Court with criminal confinement with a deadly weapon, a Level 3 felony; aggravated battery, a Level 3 felony; and intimidation with a deadly weapon, a Level 5 felony, according to a probable cause affidavit filed June 30.

Bloomington police were called about 12:20 a.m. June 18 to Echo Park Apartments, 2780 S. Walnut Street Pike, after a man was reportedly yelling for help and knocking on apartment windows.

Officers found the 49-year-old victim outside the building, shirtless, shoeless and covered in blood from fresh injuries to his face, according to the affidavit. Police said the incident happened during active flood and tornado warnings.

The victim was taken to a hospital, where he was admitted for about 36 hours. According to the affidavit, he suffered severe bruising to his face and head, bleeding in his eyes and head trauma that led to an intracerebral hemorrhagic stroke, which police described as extremely life-threatening.

A detective wrote in the affidavit that the victim later told police he was unhoused and had met a man in Seminary Park who offered him a place to stay the night of June 17, during a major storm. Police later identified the man as Jordan.

According to the affidavit, Jordan led the victim to a vacant apartment at 2786 S. Walnut Street Pike, Apartment A104, where Jordan had allegedly been squatting. The two entered through a rear patio door, police said.

The victim told police the two used methamphetamine inside the apartment. Police said the victim reported that Jordan later became aggressive after the victim moved items in the room, picked up a folding knife and held him at knifepoint.

When the victim tried to leave, Jordan allegedly blocked his path and repeatedly punched him in the face and head, causing him to leave a trail of blood throughout the apartment, according to the affidavit. The victim eventually escaped through the front door and began knocking on nearby apartment windows while yelling for help.

Police later served a search warrant on the vacant apartment and found a knife described by the victim, covered in blood and hair, according to the affidavit. Police said the apartment was covered in blood, and a trail of blood led to the rear patio door, but no blood was found on the door itself or on the patio beyond it.

Police wrote that the evidence was consistent with the victim’s account that his path to an exit had been blocked. Police also reported seeing a large blood spatter across a connecting wall, as if the victim had been pushed or dragged away from the door.

After the victim was released from the hospital, he contacted police and reported seeing his alleged attacker in Seminary Park. Officers identified the man as Jordan. The victim later told police he was certain Jordan was the person who attacked him, according to the affidavit.

Police later reviewed surveillance video from Echo Park Apartments. The video showed the victim fleeing the apartment at 12:18 a.m., less than two minutes before police were called, according to the affidavit. Police said a suspect followed about 20 seconds later, and a silver weighted object visible in the man’s pants pocket appeared consistent with the butt of the knife found inside the apartment.

Jordan was arrested June 24 in Seminary Park and taken to the Bloomington Police Department for questioning.

Police said Jordan admitted he met the victim in Seminary Park the night of the storm and allowed him to stay in the vacant apartment where Jordan had been squatting. Jordan also told police the knife found in the apartment was his, according to the affidavit.

Jordan denied striking the victim and told police the victim had taken the knife and cut himself on his fingers and face. Police said Jordan’s account was inconsistent with surveillance video, which showed Jordan leaving through the front door after the victim, not through the patio door as Jordan allegedly claimed.

Police said Jordan could not explain how the victim suffered blunt-force injuries to his head. Police wrote that Jordan had healed cuts on his right hand and forearm that appeared consistent with knife-slip injuries and matched the timeframe of the assault. Jordan told police the injuries were from a dog bite.

Jordan was transported to the Monroe County Jail on the charges, according to the affidavit.

The charges are allegations, and Jordan is presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty in court.

Source: Probable cause affidavit, State of Indiana v. Antwaun Dupree Jordan.

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