Elliot Richards, 25, was shot and killed in Gary, Indiana, on the morning of Sunday, June 9, 2024. Police and forensic teams responded to Back Stage on Broadway after reports of a shooting and found an unresponsive male; a coroner’s investigator pronounced him dead at about 6:30 a.m. A forensic autopsy the next day confirmed multiple gunshot wounds and the manner of death was ruled homicide.

Richards, a Gary resident known in the community as a jack of all trades, had attended Robert Morris College and worked as a DJ under the name DJ LBands. He was a father of two sons and had been active in Allen Chapel C.M.E. Church and the Boy Scouts of America in his youth. As of mid-2024 investigators with the Gary Police Department, Lake County Sheriff’s Department CSI and the Lake County Prosecutor’s Homicide Task Force had not announced arrests or suspects and were asking the public for information.

If anyone was at Back Stage on Broadway that morning or knows anything about Elliot’s last hours, please share what you know with investigators.