Charges were filed against Carlos Ellis, Jr. 19 in April 2025 and a friend of his, now an “unknown” suspect, for murder, felony murder and attempted robbery. Since then, the latter two charges were dropped. Ellis was found guilty of murder Thursday in Allen Superior Court after a three-day trial, Judge Fran Gull presiding.

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

Conjecture and gossip lead the discussion on why young teens, Essix Robinson and his brother, Zy Rel, were in a vacant home on Bowser Avenue on Aug. 23 of last year. The ‘bando,’ as abandoned homes are called, and identified by the boys’ grandmother as 4423 Bowser Ave.,was the scene of a shooting between Essix, then 14, and Jorge Mendez-Cornejo. The shooting left Mendez-Cornejo wounded, according to a news release from the Fort Wayne Police Department.

At 1:20 a.m. on Sept. 15, 2023, two people - Royal Davis, Jr. , 38, and Jessica Fuentes, 31 - burst into the back door of the home at the corner of Saint Marys and Margaret Street, disrupting a familiar family scene.