For Immediate Release

May 24, 2019

Death Investigation

Date:                                     Friday, May 24, 2019

Time:                                    1:58 p.m.

Location:                            3411 Cheviot Drive

Eastwood Pointe Apartment Complex

Details:

Officers with the Fort Wayne Police Department responded to 3411 Cheviot Drive to assist medics who were dispatched to a medical 911 call. Once on scene police and medics were directed to an upstairs apartment where an unresponsive male was observed. He was pronounced dead on the scene.

The death does appears to be suspicious in nature and as is our protocol police detectives, Allen Coroner’s office and Allen County Prosecutor’s office personnel were summoned to the scene to conduct a thorough and comprehensive death investigation.

The Allen County Coroner’s office will conduct an autopsy to establish a cause and manner of death. This incident remains an active investigation.

Michael Joyner

Public Information Officer

Fort Wayne Police Department