A January 23, 2021 shooting on Edward Street in Michigan City ended with Demetrius Rashawn Howell dead and a woman present with him wounded. Howell, 27, was found deceased at the scene from a gunshot wound. The woman, identified as Jessica Jones, was also struck; she drove to the Crown Food Mart on East Michigan Boulevard and was found there with multiple gunshot wounds before being taken to a local hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.

Michigan City Police investigators say their probe focused on a possible drug-related motive tied to the sale of large quantities of marijuana. In April 2023 an arrest warrant was served for 41-year-old Lamar Friend of La Porte, charging him with murder in Howell’s death and attempted murder for Jones’ injuries. Friend was already jailed on an unrelated August 2021 homicide at the time the warrant was served; bond for the charges in this case was set at one million dollars.

Did anyone in Michigan City know Howell, Jones, or have information about activity on Edward Street that night?