A shooting on the evening of August 2, 2024, in the 1100 block of West Fourth Street in Fort Wayne, Indiana, left 27-year-old Travon Depree Holman dead. Officers responding to a call found Holman in life-threatening condition; he was taken to a local hospital and later pronounced deceased. The Allen County Coroner’s Office conducted an autopsy, recorded multiple gunshot wounds as the cause of death, and ruled the manner homicide, noting it was the 23rd homicide in Allen County for 2024.

Fort Wayne Police detectives, working with the Allen County Prosecutor’s Office and the coroner, identified 26-year-old Dana Minies Jr. as the suspected shooter. Law enforcement located Minies’s vehicle in Elkhart County; local police assisted with a traffic stop and Minies was taken into custody without incident. He has been preliminarily charged with Murder, Felony Murder, and Robbery and is being held at the Allen County Jail.

If anyone witnessed the shooting on West Fourth Street that night or has information about the events leading up to it, please come forward.