FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) - A man accused of a 2017 homicide in Fort Wayne was sentenced on a lesser charge Monday.

Fargo Bennett was sentenced to 30 years in prison, according to the Allen County Prosecutor's Office.

In August 2017, Fort Wayne police officers found the body of a man lying face down with gunshot wounds near a boat ramp along East California Road, not far from the Purdue University Fort Wayne campus.

The man was later identified as 27-year-old Jason Underwood. Investigators determined he’d been shot 11 times.

Witness accounts from the night of the homicide, combined with details from an informant, led to Bennett’s arrest years later in 2024, when he was preliminarily charged with murder.

He was described in court documents as a “known ‘hang-around’ with MAFIA gang member

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