Deshawn D. Smith

Deshawn Daman Smith, a 20-year-old man from the Elkhart area, was discovered in the dim, early hours of a Tuesday morning in Bristol, Indiana—his body lying in the roadway on State Line Road, just east of Tasha Drive. Deputies and paramedics were called to the scene at about 5:31 a.m., after word spread from a passing driver to a nearby resident that something terrible was in the road ahead.

The woman who helped alert authorities later described how the news reached her doorstep: a str ...

South Bend Tribune: Elkhart death ruled homicide

South Bend Tribune: Authorities identify man found dead in roadway near Bristol