On the night of July 15, 2021, the quiet of Smith Square in Hammond was shattered by reports of gunfire, the kind of sharp, urgent sound that makes neighbors freeze and look out their windows. When officers arrived around 11 p.m. in the 1300 block, they found Tyrell Hines, a 29-year-old Black man, suffering from a single gunshot wound. The moment was already slipping away—sirens, hurried voices, and the desperate rush to keep him alive as he was transported to North Oaks Medical Center. Despit
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