Chicago Police involved in shooting after crash in Hammond, Indiana
The incident began when police responded to a call of a person wanted for an aggravated battery
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The incident began when police responded to a call of a person wanted for an aggravated battery
Caprice Edward Cashaw, 31, of Merrillville, was charged with multiple felonies.
Charges are still pending against the person of interest in a mass shooting at the Portside Pub bar in Hammond, Indiana Sunday night. The two people killed have been identified.
The two people killed in a deadly mass shooting at a bar in Hammond, Indiana early Sunday morning have been identified, as charges against a person of interest are still pending.
Hammond police said a person of interest has been taken into custody in the shooting, and said his name will be released when charges are filed.
The office said that around 1:30 p.m., the Marine and Aviation Units had responded to a call about a flipped boat on Lake Michigan near the steel mill in East Chicago.
Firefighters had to use special equipment to cut another person out of the car.
Xavier E. Walker and a 17-year-old boy from Chicago were placed into custody.
The driver was a 26-year-old man from Illinois, who was taken to a Chicago correctional facility and will be extradited to Indiana.
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"As a parent because I never want to see my son go backward from where he's grown so much in this school, and it's heartbreaking to see."
Two others have been taken to area hospitals for potentially life-threatening injuries.
Hammond police also confirmed that a female passenger was also in the U-Haul at the start of the pursuit but jumped from the vehicle during the chase.
"I'm pretty against it. Just because I have gas stations in this area."
She believes her family has given police all the information they need to actually solve the mystery.
The plan would allow gas stations to file for an exemption. But it is the approval process for that exemption that has some gas station employees worried about their job security.
The council will potentially vote on the ordinance next week.
Supporters - including the mayor - say it will help stop violent crime but gas station owners we talked to say they get a lot of business during those hours.
Right now, the Hammond City Council is considering an ordinance that would require all gas stations to shut down between midnight and 5 a.m.
Hammond Mayor Thomas McDermott has said if this ordinance gets on his desk, he will sign it.
It was just before 2 a.m. when it drove through the yard - hitting the home.
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Police said the victims were standing outside the gas station in the 600 block of South Homan Avenue shortly after 9 p.m., when an SUV pulled up and someone inside started shooting.
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Police said the victims were standing outside the gas station in the 600 block of South Homan Avenue shortly after 9 p.m., when an SUV pulled up and someone inside started shooting.
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Police said the victims were standing outside the gas station in the 600 block of South Homan Avenue shortly after 9 p.m., when an SUV pulled up and someone inside started shooting.
Police said the shooting happened around 7:30 p.m. as three teens were near the sidewalk in the 9000 block of South Exchange Avenue.
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The woman was shot in the head and torso and was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital, where she was pronounced dead, police said.
