On March 21, 1984, the community of Gary, Indiana, was shaken by the violent death of 51-year-old Charles Edward McKinney. A dedicated public servant, McKinney was arriving for work early that Wednesday morning at the Alain L. Locke Elementary School, located at 3757 West 21st Avenue. He served the area as a plainclothes security officer for the Gary school system, a role he had held for approximately ten years, and had also been deputized by the Lake County Sheriff's Department as a Special Dep
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