Two juveniles arrested in connection with a shooting at U.S. Steel Yard after West Side Leadership Academy’s Sunday evening graduation could be charged as adults.
Lake County Prosecutor’s Office spokeswoman Myrna Maldonado said in an email Monday that the two boys — ages 16 and 17 — are both in the Lake County Juvenile Center with pending criminal recklessness and dangerous possession of a firearm charges. Prosecutors are “in the process of reviewing the evidence to determine if one or both of the juveniles will be charged as adults,” she said.
“It is extremely unfortunate, and we hope for a quick recovery for everyone involved,” Salvi said. “In the team’s 20-year history in Gary, there have been no shooting incidents during the RailCats games, which are mostly played in the evening. Hamady said Sunday he received a call from Gary Community School Corporation’s head of security, Cliff Caldwell, asking for assistance because a fight had broken out as people were leaving the graduation ceremonies around 5:32 p.m., though eyewitness accounts indicated a fight broke out in the stands during the earlier festivities.
As Gary officers arrived, they found the male victim in the middle of Fifth Avenue with a gunshot to the chest, Hamady said. The 19-year-old man was taken to Methodist Hospital’s Northlake campus, Hamady said. At 6:14 p.m., police took one person with a handgun into custody.
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