Coroner: 7-year-old boy fatally shot in East Chicago
Posted July 12, 2022 7:00 am
EAST CHICAGO, Ind. (AP) - A 7-year-old boy was fatally shot early Tuesday in East Chicago, the Lake County Coroner's Office said.
Jermiah Moore died from a gunshot wound in a homicide, the coroner's office said in a news release.
Around 1 a.m., East Chicago police received several calls about shots fired , and the boy was transported to the emergency room at St. Catherine's Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 1:28 a.m., the news release said.
The boy was identified by family members, the release said. His address was unknown, it said.
Additional details on the circumstances surrounding the shooting were not immediately released.
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