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On July 6, 2016, 28-year-old Edward Kiel was shot multiple times while inside a vehicle in Fort Wayne, Indiana. He was in the car with his former girlfriend when a man approached and opened fire. Kiel tried to drive away but lost consciousness and crashed into a tree; he was found in the driver’s seat with gunshot wounds and was pronounced dead at the scene.

Investigators identified 28-year-old Christopher Figgs as a person of interest and obtained a murder warrant. Authorities alleged Figgs had taken a handgun from his ex-girlfriend in May 2016 and reported that shell casings at the shooting scene matched that weapon. Figgs fled Indiana and was later apprehended in Alabama.

Figgs’s first trial ended in a hung jury and a mistrial after about 10 hours of deliberation; a second trial produced a guilty verdict. The woman who was in the car testified she did not see the shooter, while another witness said the woman had told them she knew Figgs was responsible. Does anyone have information about Kiel, the car’s occupants, or the events that night?