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.

FORT WAYNE, Ind. ---When it came time for Devon Stewart to speak, he tried to explain why he shot an 86-year-old woman standing inside her front door, defenseless, around 10:30 p.m. on June 1 of last year. Just 18, no place to call home, according to a probable cause affidavit, he was just “following the crowd” and didn’t realize until later the “severity” of his actions.

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

Shawn Williams, 48, is on trial this week, charged as an accomplice, acting in concert with Chad Kinney, 49, in the fatal shooting of 39-year-old Philip Rhinehart, a known drug user whose friends were birds of a feather. Chad Kinney isn’t on trial yet, but his name this week has become infamous as the shooter.