Overview

• Officers responded around 8:40 p.m. to a domestic battery call at 2544 Connecticut Street in Gary.
• Police say the 24-year-old exited the home armed and engaged officers, leading them to fire.
• He was taken to Methodist Northlake Hospital and pronounced dead, and a 57-year-old man was hospitalized with injuries attributed by police to the dispute.
• Local reporting identified the 24-year-old as Walter Wright.
• The Lake County Sheriff's Department is investigating, the officers are on administrative leave, and whether the man fired a gun has not been confirmed.