On the evening of October 10, 2020, officers in Fort Wayne responded to a distress call about an armed person at a residence on East Paulding Road. Inside the home they found 18-year-old Tionna Rogan, a Black and African American woman and 2020 graduate of Wayne High School, who had sustained multiple gunshot wounds and was pronounced dead at the scene. The Allen County Coroner’s Office ruled her death a homicide.

Investigators also found an unidentified male with gunshot injuries in a nearby parking lot; he was taken to a hospital in serious condition. Authorities did not immediately clarify his connection to Tionna’s killing. Tionna had been attending Ivy Tech Community College, was remembered as quiet and intelligent, and was close to her family and young nephew. She had been expected to be a witness in her brother Trayvon Rogan’s 2019 case, but she was killed before she could testify; court records in 2021 said her murder was considered unrelated to that case.

No arrests have been reported in connection with Tionna’s death. If anyone knew Tionna or has information about what happened on October 10, 2020, please come forward.