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Death and Dying

Police were warned an Indiana resident was in danger. They did nothing. Months later, he was dead.

Portrait of Lawrence Andrea Lawrence Andrea
Indianapolis Star

INDIANAPOLIS – Months before a man was poisoned with fentanyl and strangled to death in his Indiana home, authorities in both Ohio and Indiana received alarming warnings.

“There’s a possible crime that is going to happen in Zionsville, Indiana, that could take someone’s life,” a man said in a phone call to the Clark County Sheriff's Office in Ohio at 9:42 p.m. on Oct. 27, 2020. “You can’t let this situation go down.”