SOUTH BEND â A woman is dead and a man was taken to the hospital after reportedly being found shot in a car Tuesday night.
Police were called to the intersection of Jefferson Boulevard and Eddy Street just before 9 p.m. to reports of a drive-by shooting, according to the St. Joseph County Metro Homicide Unit. On scene, officers found a vehicle had collided with a tree on the southeast corner of the intersection.
A female driver and male passenger were found with apparent gunshot wounds. The driver, 28-year-old Chanel Neal, of South Bend, was pronounced dead at the scene.
The male passenger, who police have not identified, was taken to the hospital with non life-threatening injuries.
Philip estimates that he injected $1 million into each of his scar-tracked arms during the 18 years he lost to heroin.
He watched his Fall River home with its granite countertops, his job as a truck driver, his marriage, and his relationship with his two young children evaporate as quickly as the money he used to keep the sickness of withdrawal at bay.
“It’s a chase every day, from the time you wake up to the time you go to bed,” Philip said.
“I lost everything, just for a drug.”
Philip arrived late to heroin, first snorting it at a friend’s urging at age 27 after becoming hooked on the Percocet that had been prescribed for a back injury. Within a week, his days and nights were ruled by the quest to get more heroin by any means. He’d inject some $450 worth a day. He’d buy it in Providence and sell it in Fall River at a $150 profit to fuel his habit.
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Jefferson Boulevard will be restricted from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Monday through Friday between Van Buren Street and Broadway during installation of fiber optic lines, the city of Fort Wayne has announced.