Overview

• The Lake County Coroner’s Office has officially classified the deaths of Chasity Shorter and Brice Taylor as a murder-suicide following forensic autopsies.
• Shorter, a 21-year-old Gary resident who was four months pregnant, was ruled to have died from multiple gunshot wounds in a homicide.
• Taylor, a 21-year-old man from Hammond, Indiana, died from a gunshot wound, with his death ruled a suicide.
• The incident occurred late Friday night at 435 Clark Road in Gary, Indiana, with police responding to the scene just before 10:30 p.m.
• Authorities have released no information about the nature of the relationship between the two victims as investigations continue.