On the night of July 4, 2024, Jerome Scott, 35, was shot during a conversation with someone in a vehicle on the 3600 block of Superior Court in East Chicago, Indiana. Police found Scott at about 10:30 p.m. with a single gunshot wound to his stomach; he told officers he had been shot while talking to an unknown individual inside the vehicle. Emergency medics took him to the University of Chicago Hospital, where he died in the early hours of July 5.

The preliminary investigation indicates one shot was fired and the vehicle immediately fled the scene. The Lake County Homicide Task Force took over the investigation and identified a suspect. On July 12 the Lake County Prosecutor’s Office charged 40-year-old Maya D. Washington of Gary, Indiana, with Felony Murder; she was taken into custody and is being held at the Lake County Sheriff Department Jail.

If anyone saw activity near Superior Court around 10:30 p.m. on July 4 or has information about the vehicle involved, please share what is known.