In the early morning hours of February 25, 2018, Gary, Indiana police responding to reports of shots fired found two men fatally shot at an apartment complex on the 400 block of North Clark Road. Freddie Howard, 44, was located in a breezeway of the building; 29-year-old Van Dyke Cason, the son of a local pastor, was found inside an apartment unit. The Lake County Coroner’s Office pronounced both dead at the scene.

No suspects or arrests are identified in the information provided, and many facts about the sequence of events remain unclear.

If anyone has information about Freddie Howard, Van Dyke Cason, or the circumstances that night, please come forward to help bring answers to their families.