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After a four day trial, an Allen County Jail convicted Sanders of murder - acting in concert, attempted murder for the wounding of the younger brother of the deceased BMG gang member, battery, and a Level 5 felony criminal gang activity. The homicide took place Sept. 12, 2023 at 1:50 a.m.

You have “two tough dogs squaring up and eventually they’re going to fight. They’re trying to be the biggest badass dog in town,” Deshaies said on the stand. In court testimony, Deshaies identified Sanders, now 20, as a member of the BSG, aka Big Swen Gang, named after a deceased member. 

Five of the six charged who - Douglas Zuber, Christopher Yoho aka Chris Woho, Ryan Minick, Jerrad Impton and Wert - are scheduled to appear Sept. 26 in front of Allen Superior Court Judge Fran Gull. Vard Warnock, the sixth defendant charged a week later after a misidentification, still has a hearing on Aug. 25, according to online court documents.

On Oct. 13, 2023, when he was found in a jail shower with the undershirt he used to hang himself around his neck, she couldn’t let it go. Ohlwine had been incarcerated on Sept. 12. Ohlwine filed a civil lawsuit on Aug. 5 in Allen Superior Court against the Allen County Jail, jail officials, the Fort Wayne Police Department, individual police officers and the jail’s medical provider, Quality Correctional Care, a Carmel-based private company, for negligence and wrongful deat

Today, four of the six men charged in the May 30 beating of a black man at Pike’s Pub in Waynedale appeared in court in front of Magistrate Samuel Keirns.

During the ensuing melée on Dec. 9, 2023, Gray, now 24, shot and killed Keelin Woods, 26. He stood trial this week in Allen Superior Court for murder, attempted murder and using a firearm in the commission of a crime. The jury, after about three hours of deliberation, found him not guilty. They agreed he acted in self defense. 

Two PODs involved in the construction still sit in the parking lot, a kind of funereal monument. That’s where Woods went down, according to court testimony and a probable cause affidavit written by detective Geraud Bartels.

In December, 2023, two groups of Servpro workers, one hired out of Louisville; the other, Chicago, squared off late one Saturday afternoon and had a heck of a brawl in the southeast parking lot of the Red Roof Inn on West Coliseum Boulevard, according to a probable cause affidavit written by homicide detective Geraud Bartels. It started over a remark a Chicago supervisor hurled at the guys from Louisville. They weren't getting their work done, he said. That was enough to p

Alec Hegge told investigators with the Hamilton County Metro ICAC Task Force that he “never hurt” a patient because there were too many safeguards in place. Hegge, 31, originally from Fort Wayne and a 2013 Snider High School graduate, was a registered behavior technician at Changing Lives Behavior Analysis Inc. in Anderson, according to a release posted July 24 on Facebook by the Fishers Police Department.

And there was security. But that night Cameron Starks, now 24, and two buddies knew security, who let them in with their weapons.  Shamon Little aka “Homer” was killed that night. Dr. Kent Harshbarger, a forensic pathologist said Little died of a gunshot wound to the head, according to the probable cause.

Swedzinski, 67, died of a bullet wound to the head and another to his chest, according to a probable cause affidavit written by Detective Gabe Furnish with the Allen County Sheriff’s Department. Thursday, Michael Chavez Gustin, 22, was charged with murder, felony murder and burglary.

Folks in the 46845 zip code where new luxury homes abut farmland are jittery, wondering if the shooting death was random or personal. It looks as though it was the latter. "If it is any relief, there is no indication that the incident there, will lead to any others," Kenneth Litzenberg, public information officer for the Allen County Sheriff's Department, wrote Thursday in an email response.

The victim was 67 years old and lived far north in Allen County. His home in the 700 block of Hathaway Road is peaceful with large homes. Roger Marvin Swedzinski died Saturday morning around 9:30 a.m. of multiple gunshot wounds.He was at his home.

Surveillance video from a nearby business showed proof it was a hit and run accident, that the Saturn was traveling east on McKinnie, ran a red light at Lafayette and struck the northbound Chevrolet Silverado, according to a probable cause affidavit penned by Sgt. Matt Wilson, assigned to the Fort Wayne Police Department’s homicide, but a former fatal traffic crash detective.

Flowers appealed to Keirns to place him in the JCAP program, an in-jail recovery program that has had success, but Keirns said the jail was full and basically, it was time for the state to pick up some of Flowers’ incarceration costs.

It took three seconds to mortally stab the victim. And a short time later to arrest Draylon Marquise Crutch

Last Friday, the Fort Wayne Police Department went out to clean up downtown Fort Wayne. The operation from 4 p.m to 8 p.m. means it was still light outside when they arrested nine people,  including some aging prostitutes whose mugshots will not be published here, their sorry lives already exposed in local media.

Jamoni Burton, 19, who lived in the same apartment complex as his alleged victim, Kardenia Anthony Hollis, is now facing a virtual life sentence homicide. Thursday he was booked in to the Allen County Jail on a murder charge, according to the Allen County Sheriff's Department website.

Tuesday, the Allen County Coroner identified him. His name is Kardenia Anthony Hollis of Fort Wayne. He was 16 years old. “They called him Nunu,” Parker said. Teens have told him that Hollis was a student at Northup High School. Hollis was found early Saturday morning - around 3 am. - lying in front of the Woodbridge Apartments in the 1800 block of River Run.

On the night of Feb. 19, 2023, Brandon Golden and Daisha “Twink” Fitts walked out of the Fraternal Order of Eagles casino on Bluffton Road at 11:23 p.m., got into Golden’s van and left happy, pulling out on to Winchester Road Six minutes later, Golden was frantically speeding back into the casino parking lot, his friend Daisha, a beloved local barber, dying between the passenger and the back seat after she was shot in an ambush at Winchester and Airport Expressway.