UPDATE: Malik Andrews was taken into custody by Hammond Police around 9:30 a.m. Sunday morning.
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HAMMOND – The Hammond Police Department is investigating a shooting that left one dead at a Hammond venue early Sunday morning.
Authorities responded to The Livin Room on Nashville Avenue, near North Morrison Boulevard, around 12:30 a.m. Sunday morning to a call of shots fired. Upon arrival, officers found a deceased man lying in the ditch with a gunshot wound to the chest.
He was later identified as 23-year-old Tykerstien Lusk of Springfield.
A witness was able to identify one of the offenders as 19-year-old Malik Andrews of Hammond. A warrant has been issued for Andrews for one count of First Degree Homicide and one count of Illegal Discharge of a Firearm.
Anyone with information about this incident or the offenders is asked to contact Detective Ronney Domiano with the Hammond Police Department Criminal Investigations Division at (985) 227-5739.
This is an ongoing investigation.
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