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One person is dead after police respond to Avondale Drive to a report of someone armed and threatening to fire a weapon.
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Allen County Prosecutor Michael McAlexander found that officers with both the New Haven and Fort Wayne police departments were justified in using deadly force to protect the public.
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The Fort Wayne Police officer has been on the department since 2018. The shooting of the 58-year-old unhoused man in response to a burglary call remains under investigation.
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Samuel Sterling Caston was Allen County's 32nd homicide for 2024
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The shooting on the city's southeast side is the sixth police-action shooting since the beginning of June.
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Fifty-eight year old John Edward McCloud was shot to death in the 1500 block of Wells Street when police responded to a burglary call. It was the fifth police-action shooting since the beginning of June.
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It is the fifth officer-involved shooting involving a FWPD officer since June.
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Police are considering the shooting a "suicide by cop" due to a letter found in Gawon Benson's pocket.
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As the Fort Wayne Police Department investigates two officer-involved shootings from July, it released the names and records of the officers involved.
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Two days after an investigation into an officer-involved shooting prompted PFW to close, the Allen County Coroner identified the person killed in that shooting.