Fort Wayne man worried after finding bullet in weekend shooting inside his home

FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) — A Fort Wayne man lost all sense of security in his home after discovering that a stray bullet from Sunday's deadly shooting on the city's northeast side had ended up in his kitchen.

Shortly before 5 a.m. Sunday, Fort Wayne police responded to a reported shooting in the 6000 block of Melan Cove.

Police officers on scene discovered two men with gunshot wounds. The first victim was reported to be in fair condition, but another was pronounced dead at the hospital.

Today, Tyshawn Morris, 28, faces an attempted murder charge for allegedly injuring a man he had argued with — and a murder charge in connection with the shooting of a man who was allegedly the unwitting target.

Eli Morimanno lives in the house next to where the shooting took place. He said he woke up to what he thought was a cup or glass dropped in his kitchen. He said it was noisy, so he went to check it out.

He began to sweep up the mess. Later, he realized that it was not just a cup that had fallen out of the cupboard. Looking through what he was sweeping, he found a bullet.

Shortly afterward, police were on the scene and that's when Morimanno realized the bullet had passed through his house, entering his eye level into his family room, heading up to 'to his kitchen where the bullet hit a knob on his stove. . This is what had broken into pieces.

Morimanno didn't expect this to happen in his neighborhood, much less right outside his home.

“My son is six years old,” Morimanno said. “Her room is right above where she went.”

Morimanno couldn't help but think about what would have happened if the ball had hit a slightly different place.

“Had we been on this path at this particular time,” Morimanno said. “It would have been our life.”

According to Morimanno and his neighbors, Melan Cove is a family neighborhood where children play from yard to yard in the evenings. He never expected something like this to happen.

Even though no members of his family were hurt, Morimanno can't help but feel unsafe in his own home.

“If there’s something dangerous going on inside, you’re going to rush into the house,” Morimanno said. “This is where you will always be safe. But that's not always true now. At least not for us.