Donald R Owen, Jr. v. State of Indiana

── Donald R Owen, Jr. v. State of Indiana ── Case No.: 21S-LW-00333 Court: Indiana Supreme Court Date: June 08, 2023 Author: Justice Geoffrey Slaughter County of Origin: Elkhart Category: Criminal Decision: Affirmed Defendant, Donald R. Owen, Jr., was an acknowledged gang leader in Elkhart County. When members of the local Latin Kings gang believed a woman among them was a police snitch, they interrogated her, roughed her up, and eventually killed her—but not before contacting Owen, who later arrived at the scene and both supervised and participated in torturing and killing her brutally. Once she was dead, Owen oversaw cleaning up the crime scene.