On the evening of August 13, 2022, 27-year-old Josue Anaya of East Chicago, Indiana, was shot and killed. Officers responding to reports of gunfire and a subsequent car crash found a crashed vehicle at 140th and Alder Street with an 18-year-old man, Rafael A. Anaya of Hobart, suffering a gunshot wound to the neck; he was taken to St. Catherine’s Hospital and later airlifted to a Chicago-area hospital in critical condition.

About a block away at a Mobil station on Columbus Drive, Josue Anaya was found with a single gunshot wound to his left armpit. He was transported to St. Catherine’s Hospital and pronounced dead there by the emergency room physician. At the time he was out on bond in a 2020 East Chicago murder case and was scheduled for trial in October; it is not known whether that pending case is related to his homicide. The East Chicago Police Criminal Investigation Division is handling the case; no suspects have been publicly identified and no arrests have been reported.

If anyone has information about the shooting, contact East Chicago detectives.