Authorities in northwest Indiana were investigating whether a triple shooting that left three people dead at a Griffith home was a murder-suicide, the Lake County Sheriff's Department said Friday.
Sheriff's officials said at around 3:35 p.m, the department was investigating a fatal shooting at a home in the 600 block of Colfax Street. Officers arrived and found three men who had sustained apparent gunshot wounds, police said. Two of the victims were pronounced deceased, while a third was taken to the hospital in critical condition.
The thid person later died from their injuries at a local hospital, police said.
Law enforcement said officers secured the scene and that there wasn't an existing threat to anyone in the area.
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Footage captured by Sky 5, which was over the scene Friday afternoon, showed a number of police vehicles along Colfax Street and a driveway that had been blocked off with crime scene tape.
Sheriff's department detectives were investigating several factors surrounding the shooting, including if the incident was a murder-suicide, officials said Friday evening.
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