Thomas DeLaCruz Jr.

On Halloween night in 2021, 13-year-old Thomas DeLaCruz Jr. was trick-or-treating with friends and family in his grandmother's Hammond, Indiana neighborhood. An earlier verbal altercation between a member of DeLaCruz's group, who was wearing a clown mask, and a man across the street escalated tragically. The man threatened to get a gun and shoot them.

Roughly 30 to 45 minutes later, a silver car carrying four to six individuals drove past the group of trick-or-treaters. The vehicle parked ...

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