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

Gang involvement is hush-hush at this murder trial. Reading through the probable cause, there are no rap lyrics that tie Dionee White, 23, to the 2024 homicides of Adaija “Daisy” Okey and Lamarion “LD” Bailey. 

Ford, 38, one of two charged in the shooting deaths of Tornor Doby, 29, and Anisha Jackson, 38, was found not guilty of felony murder and attempted burglary after a three-day trial in Allen Superior Court, Judge David Zent presiding. The jury hung on the murder charge, not able to make a decision on the question of self defense.

Derrick Baker was looking for a little sympathy as he sat on the stand this week testifying in his own trial. An admitted crack cocaine addict, he told the jury of his peers - well, not really, but that’s what we say in America - that he thought the house he burgled was “abandoned.” His real goal was some peace and a source of water. “I wanted to enjoy my high without any disturbance,” he said.

On the night of Feb. 19, 2023, Brandon Golden and Daisha “Twink” Fitts walked out of the Fraternal Order of Eagles casino on Bluffton Road at 11:23 p.m., got into Golden’s van and left happy, pulling out on to Winchester Road Six minutes later, Golden was frantically speeding back into the casino parking lot, his friend Daisha, a beloved local barber, dying between the passenger and the back seat after she was shot in an ambush at Winchester and Airport Expressway.