ALLEN COUNTY, Ind. ---There’s a community of boys who’ve spent time together at ACJC (Allen County Juvenile Center) who are continuing to gather in Indiana prisons, their lives cut short by juvenile waywardness. One of those is Dionee White, 23, who apparently got swept up in the local gang culture and was convicted Friday of being one of two shooters in a double homicide on Jan. 29, 2024. One of the victims, Lamarion “LD” Bailey, was a star football player his sophomore year

ALLEN COUNTY, Ind. ---When Lamarion “LD” Bailey was a sophomore at Snider High School here in Fort Wayne, he started in every single football game, playing corner. His mother wears a locket around her neck, both sides with a photo of her son, one in his football uniform. How he got from a star football player at a school known for its strong gridiron program to shot dead at 18 sitting in the passenger seat of his beautiful girlfriend’s car makes people shake their heads. Dion

Jalan Carpenter was found guilty of murder in Allen Superior Court Thursday after a three day trial. The jury believed that Carpenter, now 22, waited for John Peterson, 19, a signed basketball player for Manchester University, in the area of Vance and Reed on March 26, 2021 and ambushed Peterson at 10:28 p.m. that night.

Maybe because of memories of a lost romance or loneliness, or because of fear or coercion, or maybe the awkward hope of a diamond ring, Priya Whitt kept her silence for years. “Don’t say nothing,” she was told and Reginald Gant and Gregory Robinson expected her to keep her mouth shut.