Sajdah Abdur-Rabb, a 50-year-old Black woman, was found with a gunshot wound to her torso at her Dunkelberg Road residence in Fort Wayne on the evening of January 30, 2025. She was taken to a local hospital and later died; the Allen County Coroner’s Office ruled the death a homicide, the fifth homicide reported in the county that year.

Investigators arrested her 53-year-old boyfriend, Reginald Brooks. Court documents say the shooting happened during a drunken altercation inside their mobile home and that Brooks had previously threatened to kill Abdur-Rabb and her child. Brooks was charged with murder and is being held in the Allen County Jail without bond. The Fort Wayne Police Department, the Allen County Prosecutor’s Office, and the Coroner’s Office are continuing to investigate.

Anyone who knew Sajdah, her family, or who has information about the night of January 30 is asked to come forward.