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Ricky A. Scott III, 25, had the murder charges against him dismissed Thursday. He was accused of murdering Uriel Arambula at a Hammond tire shop in 2020.
CROWN POINT â A Lake Criminal Court judge this week granted bail for a man charged with murder in a fatal shooting at a Hammond tire shop last year after an alleged road rage confrontation. Attorneys for Ricky A. Scott III, 23, of Hammond, wrote in court filings he more likely than not "properly acted in self-defense" during a shootout May 5 that killed Uriel Arambula, 25, and wounded Arambula's brother, Scott, and Scott's co-defendant, Orlando Berrios, 24, of Hammond. The shootout capped off a series of events that began with a crash on Cline Avenue involving Berrios and the Aramb...