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On the evening of March 23, 2019, 13-year-old Lavell Edmond and his mother, 35-year-old Temia Haywood, were found dead inside their home in the 6800 block of East 3rd Avenue in Gary, Indiana, each suffering multiple gunshot wounds. Police responded to a report of shots fired at about 8 p.m.; both were pronounced dead at the scene and their deaths were ruled homicides. Lavell’s sister escaped by jumping from a second-story window and told investigators she heard her mother on the phone, a knock at the door, a man’s voice, then gunfire; Lavell’s last words were reported as Mom is shot.

Doorbell camera footage showed two men near the home around the time of the shootings. Authorities identified one suspect as 39-year-old Darren Duke Taylor and arrested him in Indianapolis on April 4. Court testimony and documents described a long-term, on-again, off-again relationship between Haywood and Taylor’s father, and family members said Haywood had been trying to end it. Taylor was later convicted and sentenced in connection with the killings; the second man seen on the video has not been confirmed by witnesses.

Did anyone in the Gary area know the family or recognize the second man seen on the doorbell footage?