LEON WALKER - 5 yo - Gary IN
by TomTerrific0420 Yesterday at 7:47 am
Investigators say a boy was bound, tortured, and beaten to death inside a
home in Gary. He would have turned 6 years old Monday.
The child's death has been ruled a homicide. Gary police
were questioning people in connection with the boy's death Thursday
evening. Leon Walker, the 5-year-old victim, would have turned 6
years old Monday, but given how it appears his life was going, there is
no evidence anyone was planning a party. Neighbors-- who were
called to his house Wednesday night-- said he was dead long before he
was taken to the hospital, a victim of neglect, abuse and worse. In
hardscrabble Gary, the neighborhood is one where even those who say
they have seen it all tread warily. One neighbor who did not want to be
identified reportedly had Leon and his family over for Easter Sunday
dinner. "It is a tragedy. It is terrible because I went over
there, and he was just laying there with his eyes open, and he was dead.
I knew he was dead when I walked in the house," the neighbor said. The
disturbance was only the latest on Virginia Avenue. Last Saturday, Gary
police were called when 5-year-old Leon went missing. He was found at 2
a.m. hiding under blankets upstairs in the abandoned house next door to
his. "You have to ask yourself, 'What would make a child run
away from home to an abandoned house?'" neighbor Harold Wallace said. The coroner and the police say when an unconscious Leon was brought to
the hospital, he was covered in scars, including ligature marks on his
arms. "From what we could see, [it] looked like he was
tortured. He was beaten from head to toe," said Sgt. William Fazekas,
who was there on another matter. "In 21 years of doing this, it was
the worst I have ever seen -- for any human being." Leon Walker
lived with his father Leon Burns, his girlfriend Rochelle and her four
children. The adults are being questioned by police. "It looked
like something out of --I can't even describe it--something out of a
concentration camp," said Fazekas. "Someday, when the public is able to
review those pictures, when they are available, they are going to be
outraged." Gary police say they continue their investigation,
and they say they are confident they will be able to bring first-degree
murder charges in the case. The victim's mother, who is in rehab
for drug dependency, was told of her son's death.
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