Laurance Clay Magnum was 25 and a drummer who played at churches across Gary and the Chicagoland area. He was killed in a mass shooting shortly after midnight on July 5, 2022, while attending a block party on the 1900 block of Missouri Street in Gary. Magnum was visiting childhood friends when the violence began.

Police found multiple people with gunshot wounds; Magnum, 20-year-old Ashanti Brown of Olympia Fields, Illinois, and 26-year-old Marquise Hall of Lafayette, Indiana, were pronounced dead at the scene by the Lake County Coroner’s Office. Seven others were wounded. Authorities took a person of interest into custody for questioning, but no charges had been filed as of the latest reports and the investigation was ongoing.

Does anyone who knew Laurance or was at the block party have information that could help investigators?