HAMMOND, Ind. (AP) — A man was charged with murder Wednesday in the death of a 13-year-old boy who shot and killed a group of trick-or-treaters on Halloween in northwest Indiana.
Gary’s 23-year-old Desmond Crews is also charged with attempted murder in Sunday’s shooting in Hammond, which killed East Chicago’s Thomas Delacruz Jr. and injured another 13-year-old, (Northwest Indiana) Times. informed of. It was not immediately known Wednesday whether Crews had a lawyer.
“He was tricking his aunt, hanging out with a bunch of kids,” Delacruz’s mother, Jasmine Anderson, told the newspaper. “And some ignorant, sick person decided to shoot the children.”
One of the trick-or-treaters told police that he exchanged words with a man about 30 to 45 minutes before the shooting, which happened around 7:30 p.m., according to court documents. threatened to take the gun and shoot them.
Later the group saw a car with five or six people staring at them. The man talking to a young man got down from the car along with a few others. Court records said another man took a “shooting stance” and that trick-or-treaters were fired upon.
According to court records, a police officer apprehended the crew after the father of a youth chased him in the neighbourhood.
A gun and ammunition were later found in a storage barrel.
Police said other possible suspects were being investigated.
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