The Allen County Coroner has identified Samuel Sterling Caston as the 32nd Allen County Homicide in 2024.
News release from the Allen County Coroner:
On Monday, September 16, 2024, the Allen County Coroner’s Office was notified of a police-action shooting, in the 400 Block of East Leith Street, in Fort Wayne. Three Rivers Ambulance Authority responded and pronounced death at the scene. The individual has been positively identified as Samuel Sterling Caston, 59, male, Black, from Fort Wayne.
An autopsy has been completed and notification has been made to the legal next of kin. The Cause of Death is Gunshot Wounds of Torso and the Manner of Death is Homicide-Police Action Shooting.
Samuel Sterling Caston is the 32nd Homicide for Allen County in 2024.
The incident remains under investigation by the Fort Wayne Police Department, the Indiana State Police, the Allen County Prosecutor’s Office and the Allen County Coroner’s Office.
E. Jon Brandenberger, Coroner
Allen County Coroner’s Office
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