Overview
- Gary police named Edward Russell Jr. as the suspect charged Tuesday in four killings from February 2002.
- The counts cite the death of Mary Ann Wrencher on the 800 block of Kentucky Street and the killings of Lenard Johnson, Barbara Hall, and Curtis Hall on the 800 block of Virginia Street.
- Russell is being held at the Lake County Jail in Indiana, police said.
- The Lake County Prosecutor’s Homicide Task Force reopened the case and brought the charges.
- Police have not released the circumstances of the killings or details about the evidence, and local outlets have asked for more.