Breon Lamar Scott, a 28-year-old man Black man from Fort Wayne, Indiana, died on June 26, 2017, with public notices describing his passing as occurring at home. In the days that followed, the details shared publicly focused less on how he died and more on who he was to the people around him: someone who loved to fish, who made room for family, and who left behind a circle that felt suddenly and painfully unfinished.
Those same notices name the loved ones who were now carrying the weight of his absence—his daughter, Cayenne Scott, and his parents, Kevin Scott and Artelia Wilkes—along with a maternal great-grandmother, paternal grandparents, several siblings, and many other relatives and friends. A celebration of life was planned for noon on July 5, 2017, at Oakridge Temple COGIC on Evans Street in Fort Wayne, with visitation an hour beforehand, and arrangements handled by Ellis Funeral Home.
In the condolences left behind, the grief reads like it never found a clean place to land. One message speaks of thinking about him every day and struggling to accept that he was gone; another offers sympathy to his family and wishes for healing; another addresses his parents directly, mourning the loss of their eldest son and urging him to “fly high” and watch over the family. These remembrances don’t explain the circumstances of his death, but they do show the shape of the hole it created—personal, immediate, and still raw long after the service was over.
As for arrests, suspects, or criminal-case outcomes connected to his death, the publicly available sources that describe his passing do not report any such information. In the material accessible online, his death is not accompanied by public reporting that names a suspect, announces an arrest, or outlines charges, trial proceedings, or convictions related to his passing.
