On a Saturday afternoon in East Chicago, Indiana, the life of 22-year-old Deshaun Wiley, a Black/African American male, was cut short by gunfire. The date was September 12, 2020, when police were called to an apartment on Hemlock Street around 1:28 p.m. Inside, they discovered Deshaun unresponsive. He was pronounced dead at the scene by the Lake County Coroner's Office.
The call to the police had come from a woman who identified herself as Deshaun's girlfriend and confessed to shooting
him inside the apartment. When officers arrived at the third-floor apartment, they found a crime scene that suggested a domestic dispute had turned fatal. The preliminary investigation pointed towards this being an isolated incident.
In connection with the shooting, authorities took a female person of interest into custody. During their investigation at the apartment, police recovered several handguns. The case highlighted the tragic consequences of domestic violence, leaving a family and community to mourn the loss of a young man.
