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CROWN POINT — A Merrillville man was charged Thursday with murdering his brother by shooting him five times in the chest, arm and back.

Kafele L. Ward-Brown, 20, was taken into custody about 9:45 a.m. Wednesday after returning to his home in the 7500 block of Hendricks Street following hours of police activity there, Lake Criminal Court records say.

Police responded to the home about 5 a.m. and found Ward-Brown's brother, Dennis Ward, 27, had climbed through a window and was lying wounded in the backyard.

Officers observed a pool of blood on the windowsill and a streak of blood on the outside edge of the window, according to court records.

Officers safely removed Dennis Ward from the yard to an ambulance. He died about 6 a.m. at Methodist Hospitals Southlake Campus, according to the Lake County coroner's office.

As police secured the scene, they noticed several children inside. The children did not respond to officers' attempts to call them out.