Dominique Williams was found shot to death inside a Fort Wayne apartment in the early morning of August 5, 2016 — the day he turned 23. Police responded to a 911 call around 6 a.m. at the Preston Pointe Apartments on Winston Lane and discovered his body. An autopsy confirmed gunshot wounds to his right shoulder and chest. Investigators initially treated the scene as a robbery gone wrong; another person who had been in the apartment escaped unharmed and alerted authorities.

The investigation produced a major development in March 2018 when 21-year-old Logan J. Stuth, a homeless man Williams had reportedly invited to stay with him, was arrested and charged with murder and use of a firearm. Prosecutors relied on Stuth’s multiple, inconsistent accounts of the incident and a statement from his brother alleging instability and homicidal talk. In October 2020 a jury in Allen Superior Court acquitted Stuth of all charges, leaving the question of who killed Dominique Williams unresolved.