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HAMMOND — Police believe the man who committed suicide Monday in an Aldi parking lot was the primary suspect in the shooting homicide of John Horvat, a Hammond man, earlier that morning.

Bruce Craft, 56, of Hammond, was found dead with a self-inflicted gunshot wound at about 2:24 p.m. in a vehicle at the Aldi parking lot in the 7900 block of Indianapolis Boulevard, according to Lt. Steve Kellogg.

As the investigation unfolded, Craft quickly became the primary suspect, Kellogg said. Kellogg said the vehicle Craft was driving was entered into the city's new License Plate Reader system, which detected Craft's vehicle as last being in the general location of the Aldi.