The Allen County Coroner has identified 26-year-old Selman
Delic as the 3rd homicide victim of 2021.
http://www.allencountysheriff.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Selman-Delic.pdf
Please
also, remember these 2021 victims:
Randolph D. Bazile
Myquel Lmann
Middlebrook
As
of 1/29/2021:
Average
age: 28.7
The Allen County Coroner has identified 22-year-old Myquel
Lmann Middlebrook as the 2nd homicide victim of 2021.
http://www.allencountysheriff.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Myquel-Lmann-Middlebrook.pdf
Please
also remember:
Randolph D. Bazile
As
of 1/20/2021:
Average
age: 30.0
The Allen County Coroner has identified 38-year-old Randolph
D. Bazile as the 1st homicide victim of 2021.
As of 1/11/2021:
Average
age: 38.0
There are no
changes in the Fort Wayne/Allen County 2020 homicide total.
However, the status of the case of Steven A. Gibson has changed.
Originally, the Allen County Coroner declined to do an autopsy and rule on cause and manner of death because Steven died in Marion County.
On Wednesday, the Marion County Coroner's office, after many months, finally issued a cause and manner of death report that ruled Steven's death a homicide by gunshot.
For some background: according to police reports, Steven A. Gibson was shot on August 13 in the
300 block of West Rudisill, was taken to a local hospital, then moved to an
Indianapolis hospital, where he died on September 2.
Because Mr. Gibson
died in Marion County, his death is not officially counted as an Allen County homicide by Allen County authorities.
However, we have
included Steven A. Gibson’s name in our homicide victims list, so as to preserve his name so
that he is not forgotten.
From Jamie Duffy’s January 8 Journal Gazette:
Kendallville man died 3 weeks later at Indy hospital
JAMIE DUFFY | The Journal Gazette
The death of a man in an Indianapolis hospital
after being shot in Fort Wayne has been ruled a homicide.
The Marion County coroner Wednesday ruled
Steven Gibson's death Sept. 2 a homicide, one of 245 last year in
Indianapolis. Gibson, 28, died from a gunshot wound to the abdomen, a Marion
County coroner spokeswoman said Thursday.
The Marion County office said Gibson, from
Kendallville, was taken to Lutheran Hospital in Fort Wayne on Aug. 13. On
Aug. 18, he was flown via air ambulance to Indiana University Hospital for
advanced care and died at the hospital Sept. 2.
Sgt. Tim Hughes, a Fort Wayne police
detective, said the city's homicide division has been investigating the case
and has identified the shooter as Samuel Freistroffer, 29. Freistroffer called
911 to report the shooting, Hughes added.
“We haven't charged him yet because he's
saying he acted in self-defense,” Hughes said. “We are still investigating and
will review the case with the prosecutor now.”
Allen County Deputy Coroner Christopher Meihls
said Thursday that Gibson's death is “not an Allen County case. It's a Marion
case. My understanding is he was shot here in Fort Wayne, taken to Indianapolis
and died. It's a Marion County case with the Fort Wayne Police Department
investigating.”
On the Fort Wayne Police Department's website,
a release dated Aug. 13 reported the shooting that day at 10:28 p.m.
in the 300 block of West Rudisill Boulevard.
The victim was suffering from an apparent
gunshot wound and taken to a hospital in serious condition. A hospital
physician then downgraded Gibson's condition to life-threatening, the release
said.
At the time, police said there was a
disturbance in an upstairs apartment before the shooting and detectives were
interviewing witnesses at police headquarters.
Gibson was a CNC machinist at several
northeast Indiana companies, according to an online obituary. He was survived
by three daughters, six siblings and a fiancée, besides his parents.
The Allen County Coroner officially reported 43 homicides
for 2020.
Please
remember
Marlon
Lee Kimbrough
Diquan
Q. Meriwether
Than
Kahn Khai
Warrell
K. Booher
Eric
Ray McDonnell, Jr.
Tonisha
T. Richardson
Mon
Ong
Brooke
J. Wendel
Donna
Sue Taylor
Nicholas
Phillips
Marcos
Ildefonso Casares
Nicholas
James Elsner
Austin
D. Harrison
Ronnie Dontrell Hall
Jaden
Diaz Lee Nelson
Roosevelt Allen III
Doak Stanley McBride
Kyle Gregory Call
Crystal C. Holmes
Manuel M. Mendez
Kenneth Jerome Frierson II
Amanda Louise Hoglund
Jalen Deandre Lindsey
Jean Emmanuel Duperat
Damarcus A. Walker
Jacqueline Coley
Allen Lamar Ruffin
Frederick D. Sanders
Angel May Carter
Antonyo Stephens
Jonathan Darrel Wade
John Ray Deremer
Justin Cedric Dawson
Steven A Gibson**
Stephon T. Holland
Nichole Y. Paschall
Twilah Newmon-Thomas
James Jeffery Hines
Toma T. Davis
Emoni Milynn Martin
Tionna Rogan
Elgin Markeith Davis
Shamon L. Little
**Steven A Gibson, according to media reporting, was shot near the corner of Rudisill and Webster on August 13 and transported to a local hospital, and then to a hospital in Indianapolis where he died on Sept 2. For reasons not fully explained, neither the Marion County Coroner nor the Allen County Coroner has performed an autopsy to establish cause and manner of death. I've made an exception to my protocol and listed his name in the list. When an autopsy is eventually performed and the coroner's report released, then his demographic data will be included in my database and in the final tally which would out the 2020 total at 44.
One of the
purposes of this blog is to make sure that the victims of homicide in Allen
County are not forgotten.
