CROWN POINT â Prosecutors filed charges Tuesday alleging a Hammond man sent threatening text messages about a gun to a woman's relative days before he was arrested near the scene of the woman's shooting death in Hammond.
Mark J. Halliburton, 38, was charged with murder and unlawful possession of a firearm by a serious violent felon in the homicide of Monica J. Mills, 43, late Sunday in a parking lot at Bishop Noll Institute, Lake Criminal Court records show.
Halliburton has not yet entered a plea. He was being held without bail at the Lake County Jail.
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