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Pamela Crider

Case from Gary, IN dated Feb 27, 2019

Victim Details

Pamela Crider

Female

White / Caucasian

Gary

IN

2019-02-27

43

Pamela

Crider

07/23/2026

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In the hours before dawn on February 27, 2019, gunfire broke the quiet along the 2900 block of West 10th Place in Gary, Indiana, and officers raced in after a shots-fired call came in around 5:25 a.m. In the street they found Pamela Crider, 42, a white woman, down with a gunshot wound to the face—an attack so sudden and final that there was nothing left to do but secure the scene and begin the slow work of reconstructing what had happened in the darkness.

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  • nwitimes.com: Fingerprints help identify homicide victim shot in face
  • nwitimes.com: UPDATE: Woman shot in face in latest Gary homicide
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    I was just reading about Pamela Grace Crider's tragic case, and what breaks my heart the most is the... ...Read More
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    I can't stop thinking about the exact location where Pamela was found. The 2900 block of West 10th P... ...Read More
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