When police were called to a Dunkelberg Road mobile home around 12:40 a.m. on Jan. 30, they found the victim alive, lying in a bathtub, naked with an entry and exit wound to the side. Sajdak Abdur-Rabb, 50, was able to tell the officers she couldn’t breathe. She died later that day at a hospital.

“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.