Indiana: The Ghosts of 808 East Lewis Street
After reading about the murder of the three young men in her hometown, Tanisha Ford was surprised to learn that it happened at her family home. It was the place where her grandfather shot and killed her grandmother and then himself.
From Elle Magazine:
Shootings and violent mix-ups are a regular occurrence in Fort Wayne. While the city’s population is less than 300,000, its murder rate is higher than those of Long Beach or Denver, according to the FBI. Between 2013 and 2015, nearly 100 people in Fort Wayne were killed. In 2016 alone, there were 43 homicides, mostly on the east-central and south sides of town. (By comparison, in 2016, there were 335 murders in New York City, a city of more than 8.5 million residents.)
This crime was Fort Wayne’s first triple homicide in more than a decade. Adam was Christian, so the police quickly ruled out the possibility of an anti-Muslim hate crime. But immigration, Muslim rights, and Black Lives Matter activists demanded a full police investigation, and for a few days, #ourthreeboys trended on Twitter.
