Sincere Sole Thomas was a 17-year-old senior at Wayne High School who was killed on the evening of February 10, 2025. Described as an excellent student with a 4.0 GPA and hopes of becoming a fashion designer, she went to a playground at the Black Pine Flats apartments on Fayette Drive to meet about an exchange for a pair of shoes. Feeling uneasy, she asked a witness to accompany her and said she feared it might be a setup.

According to the witness account, after Jamir Benson obtained the shoes he shot Sincere; she was found unresponsive at the playground just before 8 p.m., taken to a local hospital and pronounced dead. The Allen County Coroner ruled the cause of death a gunshot wound to the torso and classified it a homicide. The case was investigated by the Fort Wayne Police Department and the Allen County offices handling prosecution and the coroner.

Does anyone who knew Sincere or was in that neighborhood the evening of February 10 have information that could help investigators?