LATE into the evening of Saturday, June 15, Eric Logan, a black South Bend, Indiana resident and father of seven, was hanging with a group of family and friends at his brother's house on West Western Avenue, thinking about barbecue. The next day was Father's Day. Most years the men let their kids take them out. But this year, Logan proposed, "Why not have a cookout, as a way to show appreciation for the kids?" The group decided to buy meat first thing in the morning. Just before 3 a.m. Logan left to walk to his mother's house, just a few blocks away, on the western edge of downtown.
Within an hour he was dead. Around 3:30 a resident had called police to report that someone was breaking into cars on North William Street, just across from Logan's mother's house. Police Sgt. Ryan O'Neill, who is white, later reported that he had found Logan hanging out of a car window in an apartment complex parking lot; when confronted, he says, Logan moved toward him raising a knife and refused to drop it. O'Neill fired twice, hitting Logan in the abdomen.
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