3 people fatally shot in possible Griffith, Indiana, murder-suicide identified

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Authorities in northwest Indiana were investigating whether a triple shooting that left three people dead at a Griffith home was a murder-suicide, the Lake…

Officers were called to a home in the 600 block of Colfax Street and found three people who had been shot, authorities said.Lake County sheriff's deputies were called to a home in the 200 block of Colfax in unincorporated Griffith on Friday afternoon and found three men who had been shot. Two of the individuals were pronounced dead at the scene, while a third was taken to the hospital in critical condition.

The Lake County Coroner's Office identified two of the men as Marshall Lawson, Jr., 69, of Hammond and Robert Secviar, 53, of Griffith. Preliminary findings indicate both men died from gunshot wounds in a homicide, though the cause of their deaths hadn't been determined. The third person who died was identified as John Stefanich, 67, of Highland, authorities said. While he is believed to have died as a result of gunshot wounds, authorities didn't release an initial manner of death.

Feeling out of the loop? We'll catch you up on the Chicago news you need to know. Sign up for the weeklySheriff's department detectives were investigating several factors surrounding the shooting, including if the incident was a murder-suicide, officials said Friday evening.

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