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Woman indicted on murder charges following last month's fatal shooting outside west Toledo bar

Witnesses say a man was shot in the chest while trying to intervene in a fight between two women. The fight happened outside Walle Rocket's Bar.

TOLEDO, Ohio — A grand jury indicted Shantoria Hankins on aggravated murder and other charges on Friday, after an incident that left a man dead last month outside a bar. 

Sterling Parker died after being shot outside of a west Toledo bar on Oct. 23.

The shooting happened in the parking lot of Walle Rocket's Bar on Upton and Sylvania Ave. around 2 a.m.

Police arrested 27-year-old Hankins on charges of murder. She was being held on a $1 million bond.

The grand jury indicted Hankins on two counts of aggravated murder with gun specifications and one count of felonious assault with a gun specification.

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Witnesses say the shooting stemmed from a fight outside between two women.

One of the women involved in the fight was the victim's sister.

When the victim, 25-year-old Parker, tried to intervene in the fight, he was shot in the chest.

Parker walked across the street trying to get to a family member's home for help when he collapsed on the yard, according to witnesses.

When crews arrived the man was unresponsive, and CPR was being done on the man as he was being taken to the hospital.

Parker later died at the hospital.

Credit: Lucas County Jail

Police also arrested Joaquina Parker at the scene because Parker yelled out, "She's right over there. I'm going to kill her," several times at another woman at the scene.

Parker was charged with menacing knowingly causing another to believe serious physical harm.

Walle Rocket's Bar was also the scene of a triple shooting a few weeks ago.

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