Lake Criminal court jurors deliberated for two hours Friday before finding Sheldon S. Stokes and Richard Walker not guilty of murder and attempted murder.
Desmond L. Crews Jr., 24, was the first of four co-defendants to be arrested in connection with a shooting that killed a 13-year-old boy and wounded another.
A Gary man was sentenced to 55 years Friday after he admitted being in a group that opened fire on trick-or-treaters in Hammond’s Hessville section last year.