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51-year-old man dead after police-action shooting involving Allen County Sheriff's Department

Police responded to the home in the 2700 block of Ascension Court in northern Allen County Tuesday afternoon.
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Police responded to the home in the 2700 block of Ascension Court in northern Allen County Tuesday afternoon.

Updated Dec. 19 with the name of shooting victim.

The Allen County Coroner’s office has identified the man killed by an Allen County Sheriff’s Department officer Tuesday as 51-year-old Jeffrey Stoppenhagen.

His death was caused by a gunshot wound to the torso, and the police-action shooting was the 40th homicide in Allen County in 2024.

Allen County police responded to a home in the 2700 block of Ascension Court to a report of a man armed with a gun who was having a mental health crisis just before 2:30 Tuesday afternoon.

According to a release, Stoppenhagen exited the home armed with a gun and then went back inside.

The Allen County SWAT Team and the Allen County Crisis Negotiation Team were both paged to the house at about 3:30 p.m.

Just before 4 p.m., he again came out of the house, again armed with a gun. A sheriff’s officer fired, and Stoppenhagen was struck. Officers rendered aid but he was taken to an area hospital where he was pronounced dead.

The Indiana State Police was called to the scene, as is department policy, according to the release.

Rebecca manages the news at WBOI. She joined the staff in December 2017, and brought with her nearly two decades of experience in print journalism, including 15 years as an award-winning reporter for the Journal Gazette in Fort Wayne.