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The Lake County Coroner’s office released the name of the victim in an apparent Tuesday homicide in East Chicago.

Joseph Ross, 33 of Elkhart, was shot and killed early Tuesday morning in the 4700 block of Drummond Avenue, the coroner’s office stated Wednesday morning. It listed the manner of death as a gunshot wound in an apparent homicide. A coroner’s office investigator certified him dead at 5:10 a.m.

Around 3 p.m. Tuesday, the Northwest Regional SWAT Team served a warrant to a home a few houses away from where the victim was found, East Chicago Police Chief Jose Rivera said in a release to the department’s social media page. The Lake County Prosecutor’s Homicide Task Force is currently investigating, and the warrant was related to Ross’s m

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