Northwest Indiana SWAT response connected to murder investigation: police

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.

A passerby had alerted police to the scene.

Later Tuesday, a door on a home on Euclid Avenue was left mangled, after police broke inside.

"Right outside my house, I was, like, man, it was too much," neighbor Delores King said. "How is it a body over here? Did somebody just come and throw it there, or what? You know, because I ain't heard no gunshot."

As police lights woke King up, a peak through her door had her wishing she had stayed asleep.

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"My car got the tape around it. Oh, you know when you see tape, you already know, somebody's dead," King said. "So, my granddaughter came, and she went to the window. She said, 'Somebody's laying on the ground.'"

Another neighbor said she witnessed the SWAT incident.

"I was throwing out the garbage, and I seen - I heard officers saying, 'Come out with your hands up,'" she said.

Chopper 7 captured bags of evidence being brought out of the home before crews boarded it up.

East Chicago police said this was just the beginning of an investigation.

"To see something like this happen, it's terrifying. And it's very scary," the neighbor said.

Even with all the damage left behind, police say no one was found inside of the home. So, they're still searching for the suspect, and say they'll release more information about the victim and the person they are searching for at a later date.