It’s difficult to imagine any scenario for Kenneth R. Hogan, Jr. that would offer freedom, except for the afterlife. Convicted in June of the shooting death of David Norris, one of his best friends, and the non-fatal shooting of Dominique White, a sometime companion, the 69-year-old's sentence climbed to a high of 125 years with consecutive sentencing,65 for murder, 40 for attempted murder and 20 years for using a gun, known in Indiana as the gun enhancement that can add bet

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.