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Eric Antione Hearn

Case from Fort-wayne, IN dated Jan 10, 2017

Victim Details

Eric Antione Hearn

Male

Black / African American

Fort-wayne

IN

2017-01-10

33

Eric

Antione Hearn

07/26/2026

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In the winter of 2017, the life of 33-year-old Eric Antione Hearn was tragically cut short in what would become the first homicide in Allen County for that year. On the morning of Tuesday, January 10th, Fort Wayne police were called to the Country Hearth Inn on Goshen Road following reports of a shooting. Inside one of the hotel rooms, which Hearn had rented the previous day, officers made a grim discovery. Eric Hearn, a male, was found deceased, having suffered from at least one gunshot wound. ...
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  • WANE: Police investigate ‘suspicious’ death after shooting reported
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    Does anyone else find the lack of media coverage on Eric Antione Hearn's case troubling? I've been d... ...Read More
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    I keep thinking about how Eric rented that hotel room just a day before his murder. It seems so rand... ...Read More
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