Victim ID'd in Friday night shooting

FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) -  The Allen County Coroner's Office has identified the man killed in a shooting near Paulding Road and Lafayette Street Friday night as Kryee Deqewane Ellis, 21 of Fort Wayne.

According to the Fort Wayne Police Department, around 10:50 p.m. Friday, a woman called 911 saying she was on her way to the hospital with a man who had been shot.  Officers were sent to meet the woman and the victim.

Detectives learned that the woman let a friend and two other men, one being Ellis, borrow her car to run to the store.  The three men were at Paulding Road and Lafayette Street when the occupant(s) of another vehicle shot at them.  Ellis was hit and the three men went back to the woman.  When she found out Ellis was shot, she drove him to the hospital where he was later pronounced dead.

Officer Stephen Tegtmeyer said this incident doesn't appear to be random.

No arrests have been made.

If any one has any information on this case or the location of a two toned dark colored GM extended cab pick up with a silver stripe down the side please contact the Fort Wayne Police Department at 427-1222.

This case remains under investigation by the Fort Wayne Police Department, The Allen County Prosecutors Office and The Allen County Coroner’s Office.