EAST CHICAGO, Ind. (WLS) -- There is a large police presence at a home in northwest Indiana Tuesday.

The Northwest Regional SWAT Team was activated about 3 p.m. to serve a warrant in the 4700-block of Euclid Avenue in East Chicago, police said.

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The Lake County Prosecutor's Homicide Task Force is investigating a murder that took place Tuesday morning in East Chicago, police said. The warrant is related to the homicide.

East Chicago police said in a Facebook post earlier Tuesday that a male victim was found about 2:30 a.m.in the 4800-block Drummond Street, with a gunshot wound to the head.

He was pronounced dead on the scene.

It was not immediately clear if that was the same investigation connected to the SWAT response.

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