On the evening of December 15, 2020, at about 5:54 PM in East Chicago, Indiana, shots were fired at an apartment building on Guthrie Street. Seventeen-year-old Jayden Brown, a male resident of East Chicago, was found unresponsive on the sidewalk in front of the building and was pronounced dead at the scene. Two other male victims were located inside an apartment; both sustained multiple gunshot wounds and were taken to local hospitals in critical condition before transfer to a Chicago hospital.

Investigators recovered numerous spent shell casings and three handguns from inside the apartment building. The East Chicago Police Department described the investigation as ongoing and asked the public for information that might identify who was responsible for Jayden Brown’s death.

Did anyone in the community see or hear anything that night that could help explain what happened?