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Preonda Monice Jones, 37, was fatally shot inside a Fort Wayne, Indiana, home in January 2018. The same attack also killed 24-year-old Brianna Gould, who was pregnant; her unborn child did not survive the assault.

Police focused their investigation on 27-year-old Deyante Stephens of Fort Wayne. Officers reportedly found Stephens bleeding from his hand with blood on his clothing when they located him, and court documents say he begged officers to shoot him upon arrest. He was charged with three counts of murder for the deaths of Jones, Gould, and Gould’s unborn fetus.

A jury found Stephens guilty in February 2019 on all three counts and on a firearms enhancement after a three-day trial; the jury returned a verdict in under two hours. In April 2019 Stephens received consecutive 60-year terms for each murder plus 20 years for the firearm enhancement, a total of 200 years in prison.

Did anyone in Fort Wayne know Preonda Jones or have information about the events that led up to the January 2018 killings?