MIAMI COUNTY, Ind. (WPTA) – Indiana State Police (ISP) detectives say an investigation is underway after a Fort Wayne man died while incarcerated at the Miami Correctional Facility earlier this week.
ISP says on April 4, detectives were contacted to investigate the death of 50-year-old Shawn L. Booker of Fort Wayne.
No additional details about Booker’s death are available at this time. ISP says an autopsy will be completed to determine the exact cause of death.
The department says investigators are being assisted by the Miami County Coroner’s Office and Miami Correctional Facility Investigators.
Online court records show Booker was transferred to the prison after he was charged with domestic battery in September of 2025, violating his probation from a 2022 case where he was charged with leaving the scene of an accident and criminal recklessness.
Booker’s death marks the second reported at the facility in the past week.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) confirms that detention facility staff found 55-year-old Tuan Van Bui of Vietnam unresponsive on April 1.
ICE says live-saving efforts were provided, but he was pronounced dead at 6:10 p.m.
Bui entered the United States in 1990 on a visa as part of the Amerasian Homecoming Act, according to ICE. They say he never applied for U.S. citizenship and was ordered to be removed from the country in 2005.
The department also noted that Philadelphia police arrested Bui more than a dozen times on various charges, including robbery, theft, assault, and reckless endangerment.
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