In a letter read by a deputy prosecutor, Officer Martin Garza wrote he s patrolled Gary s streets for 15 years but has never seen anything as careless and vicious as Fredrick
CROWN POINT â A Lake Criminal Court judge sentenced a Hammond man Thursday to 60 years in prison for shooting his cousin to death over what prosecutors described as a case of damaged pride.
Shaun A. Whitelow, 32, was convicted in May of murdering 30-year-old cousin Darvell L. Smith, of Hammond, early Nov. 3, 2019, as Smith sat in his parked car in the 2300 block of White Oak Avenue in Hammond s Robertsdale neighborhood.
The two had fought the night before during a family party at another location in Hammond. Police were called, but no arrests were made during the earlier fight.
Whitelow also was convicted in a subsequent bench trial of a firearm enhancement.
CROWN POINT â Lake County prosecutors dropped a murder charge Thursday against an 18-year-old man who had been scheduled to stand trial starting Tuesday.
Arshield Honeycutt, of Gary, and another teen were charged in August 2020 in connection with the fatal shooting of a 60-year-old pizza delivery driver in October 2019 in the 3500 block of Pierce Street in Gary.
Phillip Hearne, of Gary, a driver for Rico s Pizza, was shot in his left side and crashed into two other cars before his vehicle came to rest just south of the address where he was to deliver food, according to Lake Criminal Court records. He died at a local hospital.
"Shaun Whitelow brutally executed his own cousin by shooting him three times while his cousin Darvell Smith sat defenseless in his car," a deputy prosecutor said during closing arguments.
Defendant convicted of murdering man, attempting to murder cop in nightclub shootout nwitimes.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from nwitimes.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.