Romell Brown, 20, was found dead from multiple gunshot wounds in the early afternoon of December 14, 2021, at the corner of 5th Avenue and Colfax Street in Gary, Indiana. Police were dispatched at 2:21 p.m.; he was pronounced dead at the scene.

Minutes later officers located a second shooting victim about a block away in the 500 block of Hamlin Street — a 33-year-old man who was transported to Methodist Hospitals Northlake Campus and stabilized. The Gary Police Department opened an investigation into Brown’s death; no suspect names or arrests have been released publicly and authorities have asked the community for help.

If anyone was in the area of 5th and Colfax or Hamlin Street on December 14, 2021, or has information about either shooting, please come forward to assist the investigation.