On July 23, 2022, officers in East Chicago responded to the sound of about eight gunshots near the 4800 block of Alexander Avenue. They found 27-year-old Shaquille K. Russell lying in the road with a gunshot wound to his chest. He was breathing slowly but unresponsive, and was taken to St. Catherine Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.

The East Chicago Police Department’s Criminal Investigation Division opened a homicide investigation. On August 22, 2022, 34-year-old Glenn C. Keller Jr. was charged with one count of Level 1 Felony Murder in connection with Russell’s death. Keller had been taken into custody on August 19 on an unrelated warrant and a drug charge and remained in custody at the Lake County Jail after the murder charge was filed.

Does anyone in the neighborhood remember the night of the shooting or have information that could help the investigation?