On the night of September 25, 2022, a birthday celebration at Serenity Hall in Hammond, Indiana, ended in a targeted shooting that left 29-year-old Brian Leonard of Chicago dead. The confrontation began inside the hall between two women, moved outside and escalated to gunfire around 1:40 a.m. Four people were shot; Leonard was pronounced dead at a local hospital at 2:45 a.m. His death was later ruled a homicide.

Surveillance captured a white Ford Expedition arriving shortly before the shooting. Three men exited the vehicle, fired for about ten seconds, then returned to the Expedition driven by a fourth person and fled. Investigators say the SUV was later found abandoned and burned. Several suspects have been identified and charged in connection with the attack, and authorities describe the incident as a targeted act linked to associates from Chicago’s Englewood neighborhood.

Did anyone attend that party or have information about the Expedition or the people who arrived that night?