CROWN POINT, Ind. — The FBI says a Tennessee man has been charged with murder in the 1992 fatal shootings of a Gary, Indiana, woman and her 4-year-old daughter.

The FBI said Monday that 57-year-old Victor Lofton of Humboldt, Tennessee, was charged last week in Lake County, Indiana, with two counts of murder in the July 1992 killings of 21-year-old Felicia Howard and her daughter, DenNisha Howard. They were found dead inside their Gary apartment.

“This was a horrific crime that shocked our local community in 1992,” said Det. Lt. Nicholas Wardrip, Hobart Police Dept., who investigated this case along with Det. Cpl. Justin Clark, Gary Police Dept., both of whom are assigned to GRIT. “Lofton was born in East Chicago, IN but moved to Tennessee at an early age. Lofton was interviewed by investigators in September 2020; however, he denied knowing either victim or even being in Indiana at the time of the murders. Investigators utilized DNA technology and interviewed witnesses to bring the case together against Lofton.”

The FBI says Lofton was arrested Friday by police in Jackson, Tennessee, and is currently awaiting extradition back to Indiana.

The FBI’s Gang Response Investigative Team began looking into the unsolved Gary case in 2019.