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10-Year-Old Chicago Boy Killed, 7 Others Injured in 2 Separate Gary Shootings Minutes Apart: Police
Police said the shootings happened within 15 minutes of each other and remain under investigation as separate events.
- Two separate shootings in Gary, Indiana, left a 10-year-old boy dead and at least seven others injured on Sunday, July 5, 2026, with police responding to both incidents within 15 minutes of each other.
- At 12:49 a.m. Sunday in the 200 block of Chase Street, 10-year-old Montana Weathers was killed during a family holiday gathering, while a 50-year-old man remained in critical condition.
- Approximately 15 minutes prior, police responded to gunfire near 19th Avenue and Hanley Street, where six victims self-transported to Methodist Northlake Hospital for treatment.
- Gary Police Department officials stated the two incidents were not related and remain under active investigation, calling it "a heartbreaking tragedy" that impacts the entire community.
- Detective Morgan Salazar of the Lake County Prosecutor's Homicide Task Force is investigating the child's death, with a forensic autopsy scheduled for Monday at the Lake County Forensic Science Center in Crown Point.
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10-Year-Old Boy Dead, Several Hurt in Separate Gary Shootings
Source: (PHOTO: Thinkstock/barbol88) GARY, Ind. — A 10-year-old boy was shot and killed in northwest Indiana Sunday morning, according to Gary police. The Lake County Coroner identified the boy as Montana Weathers from Chicago. Officers say he was visiting family in Gary. Just before 1 a.m., officers arrived on Chase Street, not too far from the Gary/Chicago Airport, after learning Weathers and a 50-year-old man had been shot. Both were taken to…
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Usa newsChicago boy, 10, killed and man critically injured in Gary, Ind. shooting
Gary police responded to the 200 block of Chase Street after a report of someone who had been shot. While officers were at the scene, a 50-year-old man and 10-year-old boy arrived at a local hospital with gunshot wounds, police said.
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