Fort Wayne man sentenced to 85 years in woman’s shooting


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WANE 15— A Fort Wayne man was sentenced to 85 years in the shooting death of the mother of his child in the fall of 2023.

WANE 15—SENTENCED: Man faces 66 years in woman’s 2021 killing. Nathaniel Martin was found guilty of murder and a felony count of assisting a criminal in the killing of 20-year-old Ayania Starr Coker.

WANE 15—Fort Wayne man sentenced to 10 years in prison over plan to live with teenager he met online. Ryan Steele, 26, was sentenced in federal court to 120 months in prison followed by five years of supervised release.

Lake and McHenry County Scanner—Richmond man sentenced to 26 years in prison after pleading guilty to fatally shooting 18-year-old. A man has been sentenced to 26 years in prison after he pleaded guilty to fatally shooting an 18-year-old man in the face in 2019 at a home near Richmond. John M. Maki Jr., 52, was charged in May 2019 with two counts of first-degree murder. The McHenry County Sheriff’s Office responded to Maki’s home […]