Tuesday, July 05, 2022

3 dead and 7 wounded in Gary, Indiana mass shooting at block party

Abandoned Gary building in 2017
There was a mass shooting early Tuesday morning in Gary, Indiana, the fourth mass shooting in the Chicago area since Friday. Most prominent of that bloodshed of course is the Highland Park shootings north of the city that killed six and wounded 31 others.

From CBS Chicago:

Three people are dead, and seven others are wounded in a mass shooting at a block party in Gary Tuesday just after midnight.
Gary Police said officers were dispatched to the 1900 block of Missouri Street around 12:46 a.m. for several people with gunshot wounds.
Upon arrival, officers discovered three people unresponsive and seven others with gunshot wounds, police said.
Marquise Hall, 26, from Lafayette, Indiana, Ashanti Brown, 20, from Olympia Fields, Illinois, and Laurance Magnum, 25, from Merrillville, Indiana were all pronounced dead on the scene by the Lake County Coroners Office.

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