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Edward Kleinwaechter, a 49-year-old Caucasian man, was found dead on the front porch of a Marion Street residence in South Bend in the early morning of March 10, 2014. The address where his body was discovered was not his home. The St. Joseph County Metro Homicide Unit determined his death was not accidental; an autopsy confirmed a fatal gunshot wound and classified the death as a homicide.

Investigators processed the scene, canvassed the neighborhood and later linked the gun used to kill Kleinwaechter to another killing less than a year earlier — the murder of 19-year-old mother JaRina Bailey. That ballistic connection prompted investigators to consider rival gang involvement and led the Metro Homicide Unit to identify three suspects in Kleinwaechter’s killing, at least one of whom was also tied to Bailey’s death.

Are there witnesses or neighbors who remember activity on Marion Street that night or anyone who can help close this case?