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

Years from now, Jonathon Mattix will still be telling his story in prison, possibly convincing himself if he hasn’t already, that he shot his gun in self defense. No kidding, he’ll tell them. A 54-year-old woman who lived in the woods between Wayne Haven Street and the river, just a short bike ride from his mother’s mobile home on Moeller Road, grabbed his .38 special and turned it on him.

But Tuesday, the first day of a murder trial for Jonathon Mattix, Dawn Kovach's sometimes estranged family came for one of their own. “She was missing her eyes and her left cheek was sunken in,” wrote Allen County Deputy Coroner Investigator Jeffrey McCracken in a probable cause affidavit submitted two days after she was found. As a medicolegal death investigator, he also identified three holes in her lower neck area.

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.