On a summer afternoon in Fort Wayne, Indiana, tragedy struck, leaving a family mourning and a community searching for answers. Sixty-year-old Anthony Tyrone Scott Sr., a male resident of the city, was found unresponsive in the street at the intersection of Robinwood Drive and Oxford Street. The discovery was made on Saturday, June 28, 2014, a day marked by violence in the area.
Earlier that day, at approximately 1:43 p.m., the sound of gunfire had echoed near South Anthony Boulevard, less than a mile from where Scott's body would later be discovered. Fort Wayne police officers were dispatched to that scene, where they found a man suffering from an apparent gunshot wound. He was transported to a local hospital in fair condition. As investigators were looking into this first shooting, a separate call came in about a man lying in the street.
Upon their arrival at Robinwood and Oxford, officers found Anthony Scott. He was pronounced dead at the scene. The Allen County Coroner's Office later determined that Scott had died from a gunshot wound to the chest, and his death was officially ruled a homicide. He was the eighth homicide victim in Allen County that year.
In the immediate aftermath of the two shootings, police could not confirm if the incidents were related. Investigators worked to piece together the events leading up to Scott's death, but no suspects were immediately identified. In the years that have followed, there has been no publicly available information to suggest that an arrest has been made in connection with the murder of Anthony Tyrone Scott Sr. The case has seemingly gone cold, leaving his loved ones without closure and his killer or killers still at large.
