Dakota Jasmine Barnes

Death by Force

Dakota J. Barnes, a 28-year-old woman from Elkhart, Indiana, died on Friday, November 14, 2025, after a shooting outside a home on County Road 16 that has left her family and community reeling. Her obituary records her life from October 6, 1997, to that November day in 2025, noting that she passed at the age of 28 in the city she called home. In the days that followed, those brief lines in the death notices would come to stand alongside a far harsher description: the Elkhart County Coroner ident ...Read More

https://www.wndu.com: Woman killed in Elkhart County shooting identified

ABC57: UPDATE: Victim identified in fatal shooting on C.R. 16, cause and manner of death revealed

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