Michael Howie

CROWN POINT — An East Chicago man faces a murder charge and several other high-level felonies in connection to the death of a Hammond woman on Sunday who had a protection order against him.

Miguel Angel Terry, 31, was charged Tuesday with murder, aggravated battery, stalking where the defendant violates a protective order, domestic battery resulting in serious injury, domestic battery in violation of a protection order, strangulation, stalking, resisting law enforcement, auto theft and multiple misdemeanors.

He is in custody at the Lake County Jail without bail, online court records show.

On Sunday evening, Hammond police officers were dispatched to a residence in the 1300 block of Summer Street and found 37-year-old Kimberly Murphy dead inside the home. An autopsy conduc

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