GARY, Ind., Jan. 19 (UPI) -- Gary, Ind., officials Monday announced a $100,000 reward in the weekend killings of four people, including a toddler, inside a suspected drug house.
The reward was announced during a prayer vigil outside the small house in the northwest Indiana city, where the killings took place, the Chicago Tribune reported.
"We are as serious as we can be that this is intolerable," Gary Mayor Scott King said.
"If you are afraid of coming forward with information, how afraid are you going to be with the sense that someone capable of this violence is out there? It could subject you or a loved one or a family member -- or another baby -- to this kind of violence," he said.
Laurice and Jimmy Jones, their nephew Anthony McClendon Sr. and his son Anthony Jr. were gunned down sometime Friday night. The child, not yet 2, was shot twice in the chest.
Police said they found firearms, about $8,000 in cash and what appeared to be crack and cocaine inside the dwelling. Investigators theorized the house was a drug-buying spot and the slayings could have resulted from a heist gone bad, the Tribune said.
