William Morgan Collier, 37, a white male, was in South Bend, Indiana, when a late-night call brought police to the 1200 block of Queen Street around midnight. What first looked like a crash turned quickly into something darker: officers found him inside a pickup truck, wounded by at least one gunshot. They worked to keep him alive at the scene until medics rushed him to Memorial Hospital, where doctors fought for hours to save him, but he was pronounced dead in the early morning hours.
In the hours after his death, the case shifted into the hands of the St. Joseph County Metro Homicide Unit, with investigators treating the shooting as a homicide and planning an autopsy as part of the effort to reconstruct what happened and when. Early public reporting described the investigation as active but uncertain, with police saying there were no suspects at that time and appealing to the community for information that might explain why he ended up on Queen Street at that moment, and who might have been close enough to fire into the truck.
Online memorial and obituary postings place his death at Memorial Hospital in South Bend during that same early-morning window, and they sketch the life left behind: a husband, a father, a son, and a man who had worked construction for years. In the sources available, there are no named suspects, and no publicly documented arrests, charges, trials, or convictions tied to his killing in the materials that could be accessed without restricted sources.
