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The Moment on the Porch in Edison ParkIt was a few minutes before ten o'clock at night on June 10, 2026, on a quiet block in Edison Park, the kind of residential street where families say goodnight to each other over the fence and Notre Dame's golden dome sits close enough to see from the front walk. Jean Gragg, forty, an office manager at H&R Block, was standing on her own front porch with her teenage son while he showed a watch to a buyer he had arranged to meet through Facebook Marketplace. The son had done this before — sold items on Marketplace, no problems, friends said. This time the man who came to the porch was eighteen-year-old John Ford. The meeting was for a timepiece. The transaction ended in gunfire.According to court records viewed by WSBT and the account of family friend Debra McKinley on a GoFundMe, Ford pulled a handgun while he was inspecting the watch. Jean stepped in front of her son. She wedged herself between the two teenagers and pushed Ford back off her property. As she walked back up her driveway toward her home, in full view of her family, Ford fired. One of…