Kelvin Andre Topps, 65, was killed in a late-night shooting in Fort Wayne, Indiana, on July 14, 2026. Police found Topps on Hillside Avenue with a fatal gunshot wound to the chest; he was pronounced dead at the scene and his death was ruled a homicide.

About a block away on St. Joseph Boulevard officers found 74-year-old Bobby Underwood with a non-life-threatening gunshot wound. Underwood was identified by police as the suspect in Topps’s death, treated at a local hospital, and then taken into custody. He was preliminarily charged with murder, felony murder, and burglary.

How the two men were connected and what led to the shootings has not been made clear in the immediate aftermath; the sequence of events that night remains a central unanswered question for investigators and the public.

If anyone witnessed the area around Hillside Avenue or St. Joseph Boulevard on the night of July 14, 2026, or has information about either man, please come forward.