Incident
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8-06-2015 Indiana Gary 2-1
Location
August 06, 2015
Gary, Indiana
Participants
- Type: Victim
- Name: James Powell
- Age: 18
- Age Group: Adult 18+
- Gender: Male
- Status: Killed
- Type: Victim
- Name: Raymond Washington-Whitehead
- Age: 18
- Age Group: Adult 18+
- Gender: Male
- Status: Killed
- Type: Subject-Suspect
- Name: Shelton T. Curtis
- Age: 21
- Age Group: Adult 18+
- Gender: Male
- Status: Unharmed, Arrested
Incident Characteristics
- Shot - Dead (murder, accidental, or suicide)
- Defensive Use
- Defensive Use - Stand Your Ground/Castle Doctrine established
- Shootout (where VENN diagram of shooters and victims overlap)
- Drug involvement
Notes
1 man found dead inside, 1 found outside, after shootout; drug robbery; suspect charged; acquitted, in self-defense, 7/13/16; suspect found shot in idling car, 6/23/22;
Guns Involved
2 guns involved.
- Type: Unknown
- Type: Unknown
Sources
- URL: http://www.nwitimes.com/ap/state/police-men-found-fatally-shot-at-gary-home/article_fd947316-b46e-5dfb-b5ad-93ffd44bd9ed.html
- URL: http://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/lake/two-men-shot-to-death-on-gary-s-west-side/article_369171a6-05bf-5a34-85bc-d10cd3ca6fb6.html
- URL: http://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/lake/site-of-gary-double-homicide-set-ablaze-early-monday/article_19f919a3-450c-5f14-ae88-49de27183c35.html
- URL: http://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/lake/gary-man-wanted-in-thursday-s-double-homicide/article_19f919a3-450c-5f14-ae88-49de27183c35.html
- URL: http://www.nwitimes.com/news/crime-and-court/update-co-defendant-testifies-about-gary-double-homicide/article_e0089b55-bdfc-5088-b594-f900a4f3bf43.html
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