The Lake County Coroner’s Office has identified the father who was killed on Saturday evening when a hand grenade exploded at a home in Northwest Indiana.
Bryan Niedert, 46, was pronounced dead at his residence in the 3400 block of West Lakeshore Drive. The cause and manner of death were pending results of an autopsy, which is set to take place on Monday, according to the coroner’s office.
At around 6:30 p.m. on Saturday night, deputies with the Lake County Sheriff’s Department responded to a reported explosion at a home in the Lakes of the Four Seasons subdivision, an unincorporated community approximately 10 miles east of downtown Crown Point.
Family members were going through a grandfather’s belongings when they found a hand grenade and someone reportedly pulled the pin, detonating the device, officials said.
Niedert was found unresponsive at the scene and later pronounced dead. His two children, a 17-year-old boy and 18-year-old woman, sustained shrapnel wounds and were taken to an area hospital.
The Porter County Bomb Squad was called to secure the area and search for any additional explosive devices, according to authorities. The incident remains under investigation by the Lake County Sheriff’s Department’s Crime Scene Investigations unit and homicide detectives.
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