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On the evening of December 19, 2014, 16-year-old Ontario Brown Jr. was shot in the head on Wagner Avenue near the Washington Gardens apartments in Elkhart, Indiana. Police responded to the 300 block about 7:35 p.m. and found Brown with a single gunshot wound; he was taken to a hospital, placed on life support, and died the next day. His family chose to donate his organs, which saved eight other people.

Witnesses told investigators the incident followed a fistfight. After that fight ended and Brown was leaving with a friend, another teenager, 16-year-old Keenan Mardis of Chicago, confronted Brown and demanded his designer belt. When Brown refused, Mardis pulled out a handgun and shot him in the head, then fled with friends. Authorities described the killing as gang-related and linked to other local violence. Mardis was identified as the primary suspect, arrested in February 2015, tried in August 2015, convicted of murder by a jury, and on September 24, 2015, sentenced to 58 years in prison.

Did anyone in the Elkhart area know Ontario or witness events that night and can provide more details?