LAKE STATION, Ind. (WLS) -- One man faces murder charges and three are accused of helping him stab an East Chicago man to death in connection with a body found in a lake in northwest Indiana Sunday afternoon, police said.
Christian Omar Mora was charged with murder and Adam Michael Martin, Nathaniel Jacob Ostapchuk and Casey Hall were charged with assisting a criminal in connection with the death investigation, according to Lake County, Indiana, court documents.
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The men, ages 19 to 21, were taken into custody Monday.
Lake Station police said they received reports of a body floating in Grand Boulevard Lake at around noon Sunday. The Lake County, Indiana, coroner later identified the victim as Erik Lozano of East Chicago.
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Police said Lozano had been the victim of a robbery in East Chicago, during which he was stabbed multiple times. Police said the robbers took his body and dumped it in Grand Boulevard Lake.