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Office of the Prosecuting Attorney, St. Joseph County — press release of 21 December 2021 and the charging documents under cause 71D02-2112-MR-000017, read first-hand
This pass corrects the build's prior state: a murder is now documented inside the town. By press release of 21 December 2021, the St. Joseph County Prosecutor announced that Michael Allen Miles, 31, of South Bend, was charged with Count I, Murder, and Count II, Unlawful Possession of a Firearm by a Serious Violent Felon (Level 4 felony), in the fatal shooting of Rolando Saenz Jr. at Cheers Pub, 103 South Dixie Way, Roseland, in the early morning of Thursday, 16 December 2021. The cause — 71D02-2112-MR-000017, St. Joseph Superior Court — was filed 20 December 2021; the defendant was held without bond, with an initial hearing set for 4 January 2022. The release's own words govern how the charge prints: the charges "are merely accusations and that he is presumed innocent until and unless proven guilty." The disposition was not reached: no verdict, plea, or sentence carrier surfaced's searches, and none is implied; the settler is the court record under the cause number (gap G-SW-2). Both men were of South Bend; the town's tie is the place — a corridor pub (Pass R-4's roll carries the address) — and a Tribune pointer records officers called to Cheers more than thirty times in 2021, at pointer strength. The killing is the town's one documented murder inside its limits, and it stands in the record at charging strength until the court's own record settles it.