Thirteen-year-old Thomas DeLaCruz Jr. was killed while trick-or-treating in his grandmother’s Hammond, Indiana neighborhood on Halloween night 2021. An earlier verbal altercation between a member of Thomas’s group, who wore a clown mask, and a man across the street escalated when the man threatened to get a gun and shoot them. About 30 to 45 minutes later a silver car with four to six people drove past, parked, and several occupants exited. As the trick-or-treaters fled, shots were fired into the crowd; Thomas was struck and later died at the hospital. Another teenager was wounded in the leg and survived.

A 23-year-old Gary man, Desmond Crews, was apprehended after a chase and charged with murder and attempted murder; court papers say he confessed, claiming someone in the car gave him a 9mm and that others began firing. Investigation identified additional suspects: Tariq Silas, Sheldon S. Stokes, and Richard Walker. Silas pleaded guilty to aggravated battery; Stokes and Walker were charged with murder and attempted murder.

Did anyone in Hammond on Halloween 2021 see the silver car or the people who got out of it?