Richmond man ki!lls 2 police "informants", then dumps bodies in Fort Wayne river

A Richmond man that police called a “known drug dealer” has been charged with killing two police informants and dumping their bodies in a Fort Wayne river, police say.

Dominique M. “Nico” Washington, 29, is scheduled to be formally charged Wednesday morning in Allen Superior Court with four murder counts. He was arrested Monday night after police served a search warrant in the 400 block of Campbell Avenue in Richmond. The two bodies, a man and a woman from Connersville, were in trash bags. Investigators found that Matthew Joseph Johnson, 41, had been shot in the head, and the woman, Christina Michelle Dixon, 41, had been strangled and suffocated, the Allen County coroner reported when ruling both deaths to be homicides. Police believe Washington lured Dixon and Johnson into a vehicle in Richmond, forced them to turn off their phones, switched vehicles, killed them and dumped their bodies in the St. Mary’s River in Fort Wayne.

Washington’s first court hearing was set for 8 a.m. Wednesday in Richmond.