Donovan R. Russell, 25, was shot dead in South Bend on July 26, 2025. Police found him inside his running car in the 3900 block of Sheridan Plaza around 3 a.m., with a gunshot wound to the head; investigators recovered about thirty spent rifle casings in the street and five more by his vehicle.

Witnesses told police an unfamiliar dark four-door car with a spoiler had been parked across the street shortly before the shooting. A man with a rifle confronted a neighbor who had gone outside to walk a dog and said he was looking for Russell and had been watching the house. That man was later identified as 27-year-old Amante A. Vazquez. Another witness heard raised voices and saw a Hispanic male with curly black hair who said he was the boyfriend of Savannah Ragan, 23, who shares a child with Russell.

On July 29, 2025, authorities arrested Vazquez in Michigan City and charged him with Murder and a Firearm Enhancement; Ragan was arrested the same day and charged with Aiding, Inducing or Causing Murder. Both were booked into the St. Joseph County Jail and held without bond. Was anyone in the Sheridan Plaza area that night aware of a dark four-door car or saw people on foot near the house?