(WBBM NEWSRADIO) – Police in East Chicago, Indiana are asking the public’s help in solving two murders that occurred in 2021.
The first case is the murder of 32-year-old Eric Douglas, who was shot to death on Christmas Eve outside a bar called Ralo's.
“Officers go on scene, and the officers can see that there are people inside because it's a glass door, glass windows. They pull the shades and nobody answers the door,” Police Chief Jose Rivera tells WBBM Newsradio.
Police were never able to interview a half-dozen witnesses, he said.
Both the shooter and victim had been in the bar and were seen on grainy surveillance video that police obtained with a search warrant.
The second unsolved case is the murder of Anjelica Casares, shot to death in August with an AK-47 in a duplex townhome on Fern Street. The gun was left behind.
"This one is real disturbing just because the sheer act of violence,” Rivera said.
Police think there was a robbery or a drug deal taking place. Shots were fired from inside and outside the unit.
Rivera asks anyone with information to contact police.
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