Prosecutors: Murder Defendant's Mom Threatened Witness
A northwest Indiana man has been charged with a gang-related killing in Hammond last year, and prosecutors say his mother threatened a witness on Thursday.
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A northwest Indiana man has been charged with a gang-related killing in Hammond last year, and prosecutors say his mother threatened a witness on Thursday.
The clerk was tied up, robbed and thought he was going to die. CBS 2's Mike Parker reports.
Police were not saying if they believe the two fatal shootings are connected, but it appears the victims knew each other.
A 23-year-old man was shot to death after he was involved in a minor traffic crash late Sunday in northwest Indiana.
A 33-year-old Minnesota man has been charged with strangling his girlfriend at a northwest Indiana motel where they were staying while visiting for a graduation party.
A 33-year-old man suspected of killing his girlfriend at a northwest Indiana motel was arrested in Minnesota on Sunday after his mother contacted police.
Police have recommended that criminal charges be filed after an investigation into a well-publicized brawl at a boy's basketball game at Griffith High School.
In the wake of Indiana's controversial new "religious freedom" law, Hammond Mayor Thomas McDermott Jr. said Indiana Gov. Mike Pence should resign for the good of the state.
Hammond Police and the Lake County Coroner are looking for the family of a 58-year-old man who was killed in a hit-and-run crash two weekends ago.
Sonya Billingsley, 53, and Tanya Gatlin, 27, were both identified using DNA traces from the abandoned building at 413 E. 43rd Ave. in Gary, Ind. they were found in last October, according to a statement from the Lake County Coroner's office. Both women were last known to live in Gary.
The boys basketball seasons for two Northwest Indiana schools have been canceled, following a beach-clearing brawl last weekend.
A person was found dead with blunt force trauma Saturday night in northwest Indiana.
The bitter cold is creating plenty of opportunities for car thieves who are finding easy pickings as people leave their vehicles running to warm up. WBBM's Mike Krauser reports Hammond police are still sorting out a series of thefts that occurred Friday.
Rescue crews responding to a call of a hit-and-run crash about 7 p.m. found 25-year-old Dominique Wright in a black, older-model Oldsmobile on I-80/94 near Kennedy Avenue, according to Indiana State Police. Wright had been shot multiple times.
A 17-year-old girl was killed in a shooting in Northwest Indiana on Wednesday.
Three men were taken into custody in connection with a shooting Tuesday morning after a chase that stretched from the South Chicago neighborhood into northwest Indiana.
Martin Hurtado, 45, was in his backyard in the 800 block of South State Street in Hammond working on a vehicle when he was shot once in the shoulder at 9:20 p.m., according to Hammond police and the Lake County coroner's office.
A week after he was held in contempt of court for refusing to speak to a judge, suspected serial killer Darren Vann politely answered the same judge's questions, and pleaded not guilty to the murders of two women whose bodies were found in northwest Indiana earlier this month.
A superseding indictment filed last week in the U.S. District Court in Hammond charges Jeremiah Ellis with two counts each of Hobbs Act robbery and of robbery affecting commerce.
Investigators in northwest Indiana have begun using suspected serial killer Darren Vann's cell phone records, in an effort to track his movements before his arrest.
Wednesday afternoon, 43-year-old Darren Vann was charged with strangling 35-year-old Anith Jones, whose body was among six found in vacant buildings in Gary, Indiana, over the weekend.
An initial court appearance for suspected serial killer Darren Vann was delayed one week, after Vann refused to speak in court on Wednesday.
A decade ago, before he became known as a suspected serial killer, Darren Vann was an abuser of women, who at one point threatened to set himself and his girlfriend on fire.
A convicted sex offender was expected in court Wednesday, charged with killing one of seven women whose bodies were found in northwest Indiana over the weekend.
Hammond Mayor Thomas McDermott Jr. just doesn't get it.
