Man dies and woman injured after shooting in northwest Indiana

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A man died and a woman was injured early Sunday after being shot in northwest Indiana.

Officers responded about 4:30 a.m. to a call of shots fired in the 2100 block of Carolina Street in Gary, according to Gary police.

Broderick Harbin, 30, was found with a gun shot wound to the head and was pronounced dead at the scene, police said.

A 38-year-old woman at the scene was taken to a hospital for a gun shot wound to her left hand, police said. She has been treated and released.

Harbin was pronounced dead at 4:51 a.m., and his death was ruled a homicide, the Lake County Coroner’s Office said. He lived a block from where he was fatally shot.

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