On the evening of Sunday, October 17, 2021, 28-year-old Benyamin Jovon McQuiller Jr. was fatally shot at the Wells Street Mobile Home Court in Fort Wayne, Indiana. McQuiller, a Black male, had arrived with a female companion when another man opened fire; McQuiller died at the scene from a gunshot wound to the chest, according to the Allen County Coroner’s Office. The female companion was also struck but suffered non-life-threatening injuries.

The alleged shooter, identified as 30-year-old Lige James Johnson, a white male from Woodburn, Indiana, was critically wounded during a struggle over the weapon. He was taken to a local hospital and later died; the coroner ruled his death a homicide from exsanguination due to multiple gunshot wounds. The Fort Wayne Police Department and the Allen County Prosecutor’s Office investigated, and there were no subsequent arrests.

If anyone was in the Wells Street Mobile Home Court that night or has information about what led to the shooting, please share what is known.