Woman shot to death in Gary

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A woman was shot to death Tuesday night in northwest Indiana.

Officers responded to a shooting at 10:10 p.m. in the 500 block of Mount Street in Gary, and found 31-year-old Temica Spencer with a gunshot wound, according to Gary police and the Lake County coroner’s office.

Spencer, who lived in Gary, was taken to Methodist Hospital Northlake Campus, where she was pronounced dead at 11:02 p.m., the coroner’s office said. Her death was ruled a homicide.

Anyone with information about the shooting is asked to call the Lake County/Gary Metro Homicide Unit at (219) 755-3855; or the crime tip line at (866) 274-6347.

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