Police Station Bombing, 1970
Minutes earlier, Berns had shot and wounded his former psychiatrist at the man's home on Fernway Road. The psychiatrist had had Berns institutionalized five years earlier. The Shaker Heights police had escorted Berns to the psychiatric hospital then, leading some to speculate that this was the reason for the bombing.
The city eventually built a new police station and Municipal Court across the street, on the east side of Lee Road.
Image courtesy of Shaker Heights Public Library Local History Collection