Fort Wayne slaying victim is ID’d

Nyunt Shwe was charged with Aggravated Battery Monday after a man was found dead in a Fayette Drive apartment Friday.

Last updated: April 11, 2011 12:12 p.m.

The Journal Gazette

The Allen County coroner has identified the victim of a homicide Friday in Fort Wayne. Aung Win, 43, was found just after 4 p.m. Friday at Brendonwood Park Apartments, in the 1200 block of Fayette Drive, according to a written statement from Dr. E. Jon Brandenberger. His neighbor, Nyunt Shwe, 46, was arrested early Saturday in connection with the death. He was charged with aggravated battery. The cause of death is pending, the coroner’s statement said. The death was ruled the county’s seventh homicide of 2011 by the Allen County Coroner’s Office. A number of Burmese and Laotian-speaking residents live at the apartment complex. Matt Kenchanh, who was visiting his nephew and friends who live in Brendonwood Park on Friday, said the man who died was in the apartment Thursday night with two people who were questioned by police. The slain man lived in an apartment in the 1100 block of Fayette Drive, Kenchanh said. Nyunt Shwe was being held on $10,000 bail, according to an earlier story.