Police say officers responded at 12:30 a.m. on July 4, but resident Anne Herbert recalled the gunfire going off around 11:15 p.m. on Saturday, July 3.
“Even when I was on the 911 call, I could hear gunfire,” Herbert said. “I heard the glass shatter.”
Not only did a bullet shatter the window just feet from where she was standing, Herbert says her car was hit multiple times.
“I ducked. I went to the bedroom to grab my phone and went downstairs to call 911,” she stated.
Just feet away, the Ophelia Steen Family and Health Services Center had a bullet tear through an exam room.
HAMMOND â Two people were killed and two others were wounded after a shooting early Sunday at Memorial Park, officials said.
Larry Brown Jr., 20, of Chicago, and Blake Blakemore, 26, of Gary, died at Franciscan Health Hammond hospital after an incident in the 5900 block of Wallace Road, according to the Lake County coroner s office.
The gunfire marked the second time since 2019 the Hammond Day festival at the nearby Martin Luther King Park ended in a shooting, Hammond Mayor Thomas McDermott said. Organizers promised city officials gun violence wouldn t happen at this year s event, but those words were all fluff, he said.Â
The mayor vowed to never approve another Hammond Day festival.Â