On the afternoon of March 13, 2023, 54-year-old Daniel Henderson was shot and later died at a South Bend hospital after a confrontation outside an apartment complex on Belleville Circle where he had been staying with his girlfriend. The dispute began when Henderson was asked to leave with his belongings; two 21-year-olds, Jesstin Lottie and Courtney O’Neal, approached him and an argument broke out after Lottie allegedly tried to take a box of shoes. Witnesses reported a loud noise like a gunshot and saw Lottie and O’Neal flee as Henderson lay on the ground with blood on his stomach.

An autopsy determined Henderson died of multiple gunshot wounds. A voicemail Henderson left during the incident captured him telling someone to leave his things alone and to put a gun down, followed by another man threatening he was going to get shot and a woman, believed to be O’Neal, encouraging the fight. Both Lottie and O’Neal were charged in connection with the death; Lottie faced murder and a firearm enhancement, and O’Neal was charged with murder and assisting a criminal.