Shelby Erin Vonholdt was 20 when she was shot in Fort Wayne, Indiana. Police answered a 911 hang-up from a home on Eileen Street on the evening of June 20, 2021 and found Shelby with multiple gunshot wounds to her chest and abdomen. She was taken to the hospital where she had been born and died two days later on June 22, 2021.

Before she died, Shelby identified her shooter by name as a woman called Valerie. Doorbell camera footage showed the suspect’s vehicle leaving the scene, and investigators say the motive was jealousy linked to a new relationship Shelby had begun. The shooting was described as premeditated.

Valerie Rose Hardiek fled to Van Wert County, Ohio, where erratic behavior at a convenience store — including pointing a gun at a customer — led to her arrest and connection to Shelby’s killing. Hardiek was charged with Shelby’s murder; in July 2022 she pleaded guilty but mentally ill and received a 65-year prison term. The firearm used was ordered destroyed.

Did anyone who knew Shelby or saw activity around Eileen Street in June 2021 notice anything that could help explain how events escalated?