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One area woman is suing the zoo and two construction companies to say otherwise. In a February filing in Allen Superior Court, Pamela Fields claims that on Aug. 9, 2024, she took a spill in the area around the sea lions exhibit. The “trip and fall,” she said, resulted in permanent injuries.

Allen County, Ind. ---By all accounts, Jaskaran Singh had broken up with his girlfriend of a month when he shot her at his back door on Feb. 28 of last year. Singh, sitting at the Allen County Jail since then, always maintained he never intended to shoot Katiza Binti Mohamed-Sayad, a 25-year-old mother. This week, Singh was found not guilty on the murder charge brought by the state, but instead of found guilty of reckless homicide. Reckless homicide carries a much lower sente

Wednesday morning, Jake Venderley of Hunt Suedhoff Kearney, appeared in Judge Andrew Williams courtroom on behalf of his client, Mark Nei, former Redwood Inn owner, in a matter of a promissory note between Nei and the owners of Clean Cut Kid, current owners of the beloved restaurant. John Thomas Roseberry, Fort Wayne resident, and Aaron McCormick of Bluffton, partners in Clean Cut Kid, secured a loan for $310,000 from Nei in October 2022 and upped it by $100,000 the next m

“Ninety percent of the guys are STG,” Parish said. “All these murders (at Miami), they keep people locked down with no sunlight. We have not been out for one hour for six months. Pretty soon, their mental health is…..”

Now Houk is stepping down on Aug. 1 and stepping into this position on Aug. 3 is Timothy DeGroote, who’s spent his legal career at Hunt Suedhoff Kalamaros, a prominent Allen County law firm. The Probable Cause confirmed that Timothy DeGroote is married to Jennifer DeGroote. It’s anticipated that all Judge DeGroote’s probate work will be transferred to Judge Andrew Williams, who also serves as Allen County’s mental health judge.

Arthur Lee Booker was shocked when his brother’s body was released from the Saguaro Forensic facility in Fishers. It was no shock that Shawn Booker’s death at the prison on April 4, inside cell 115, was ruled a homicide. Social media blew up when inmates talked to loved ones on the outside, detailing the stabbing death of Booker, basically held captive inside his cell while another inmate, known to be extremely violent, stabbed him more than 30 times, according to what

—Her mother was asleep on the couch just a few feet away when her stepdad put his hands down her pants and molested her. She was eight years old. Scared, she finally pulled away and ran to the bathroom, but it got even creepier. When she opened the door, her stepdad was standing there, waiting for her. The monster in the dark, so to speak, put his arms around her and whispered into her ear. “I’m sorry. I thought you would like it it,” he said.

Shawn was in a locked one-inmate cell, Booker said, so there doesn’t appear to be a cell mate to blame for his death. The Probable Cause has asked the Indiana Department of Correction for details on Booker’s death. “Everything’s on cameras,” Booker says, trying to reassure himself that a complete investigation will be done.

The photos show the kind of nightmarish wound typically reported in the worst of nursing homes. A complaint filed in Allen Superior Court in January states that the bedsore photographed went untended at a local hospital, causing unbearable pain and had a hand in the victim’s death.

Two years ago in February, northeastern Indiana woke up to the shocking news that one of its most highly respected criminal defense attorneys had been killed at her home in Grabill. When the probable cause affidavit surfaced, there was even more shock that Marcia Linsky’s boyfriend of a year, Charles Calvert, was accused and charged with stabbing her in the neck several times, nearly severing her right thumb, and cutting up her lip.

ALLEN COUNTY, Ind. ---There’s a community of boys who’ve spent time together at ACJC (Allen County Juvenile Center) who are continuing to gather in Indiana prisons, their lives cut short by juvenile waywardness. One of those is Dionee White, 23, who apparently got swept up in the local gang culture and was convicted Friday of being one of two shooters in a double homicide on Jan. 29, 2024. One of the victims, Lamarion “LD” Bailey, was a star football player his sophomore year

ALLEN COUNTY, Ind. ---When Lamarion “LD” Bailey was a sophomore at Snider High School here in Fort Wayne, he started in every single football game, playing corner. His mother wears a locket around her neck, both sides with a photo of her son, one in his football uniform. How he got from a star football player at a school known for its strong gridiron program to shot dead at 18 sitting in the passenger seat of his beautiful girlfriend’s car makes people shake their heads. Dion

Gang involvement is hush-hush at this murder trial. Reading through the probable cause, there are no rap lyrics that tie Dionee White, 23, to the 2024 homicides of Adaija “Daisy” Okey and Lamarion “LD” Bailey.

At 4 a.m. Wednesday, Kane Christman, 26, was captured on home video spanking his daughter as she ran by him, choking her and “placing his hands on her” as he straddled her, with her legs behind him, according to a probable cause affidavit submitted by Officer David Bush with the Fort Wayne Police Department.

ALLEN COUNTY, Ind. ---It was a random post on Facebook that brought back memories of the time when the middle schooler lost her virginity to a man named Shane Frost. The 13-year-old was spending the summer with her stepmother who worked at a funeral home in Elkhart where Frost was the manager. Everyone was apparently unaware when the sexual relationship began, certainly the stepmother, and the victim, 13, found it enjoyable at the time. It gave her the attention she needed, a

“When did Christopher change from a seven or eight year old sitting around the pool to an 11-12-13 year old running around with guns?” he asked, incredulously. Everything was normal until one of the kids said something really nasty about one of the mothers, the source said. From that point on, it was war played out on the streets of southeast Fort Wayne.

Morning testimony featured FWPD officers, detectives and two young women, best friends, who were hanging around with the wrong crowd in September 2023. Their testimony was pivotal. S.C. was the girl with the car, a black Chevy Cruze. That night, she lent it to Terrance Sanders Jr. because he kept asking her for it, she said.

Responding officers and EMS found the younger brother crying over his dead brother, cradling him in his arms, according to the probable cause affidavit submitted by homicide detective Aaron Johnson. Detectives plumbed social media and found rap videos tying Recht, now 21, to the homicides. Words like “All that dissing he was doing, they ain’t think we was going to get him back, front yard Boogie, more through the mail you gonna get it back.”

We are mourning the loss of My Right Hand whose name was Stacey Davis. It’s difficult to quantify the impact she had on the criminal justice system. She developed such a level of knowledge of the criminal legal system that the prosecutor’s office started to rely on her when they brought in families of homicide victims. She was there for support and to help translate the process.

It was the night before their high school graduation from Snider High last year when best friends, Jaylen Murray and Jayden Cosme, went over to Uncle Laron Rosse’s home for a game of spades. Unusually, however, the night turned violent and Murray shot and killed the uncle he adored. After the homicide, shock went through the close knit family, their friends and stunned their high school principal, Chad Hissong, who spoke at Murray’s sentencing Thursday in Allen Superior