On the night of September 11, 2020, Fort Wayne police found 44-year-old Twilah Newmon-Thomas shot multiple times and unresponsive in a parked vehicle on Turtle Creek Drive. She was pronounced dead at the scene and the Allen County Coroner’s Office ruled her death a homicide, the county’s 36th that year. Neighbors reported hearing gunshots shortly before officers arrived; investigators canvassed the area and collected evidence but initially had no suspect information.

Nearly a year later, a separate Fort Wayne homicide returned attention to Twilah’s case. Court documents from the later investigation identify Travis Jones as having been a suspect in Newmon-Thomas’s murder. Subsequent developments in that separate case include the arrest of Ahmad Pearson, identified as Twilah Newmon-Thomas’s son, in connection with Jones’s death; filings say rumors had circulated that Pearson sought retaliation for his mother’s killing. No one has been formally charged in Twilah Newmon-Thomas’s homicide as of the latest reported developments.

Did anyone in the Turtle Creek Drive area hear or see anything the night of September 11, 2020, that could help fill gaps in this case?