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On the evening of March 23, 2019, Temia Haywood, 35, and her 13-year-old son, Lavell Edmond, were fatally shot inside their home in the 6800 block of East 3rd Avenue in Gary, Indiana. A daughter who was in the house said she heard her mother on the phone, an unfamiliar male voice, then gunfire; she escaped by jumping from a bedroom window and hid until police arrived. Officers found Haywood and Lavell deceased when they entered the residence.

Surveillance footage from the home showed Darren Duke Taylor and another man entering and leaving around the time of the shootings. Edmond’s father, who is also Taylor’s cousin, identified Taylor from the video. Relatives told police Haywood had been involved in a long-term affair with Taylor’s father and had been trying to end the relationship; a no trespassing order had been issued against Taylor’s father for Haywood’s home.

An arrest has been made and charges were filed in connection with the killings. Does anyone have information about the family, the men seen on the surveillance footage, or that night in Gary?