Frank Lamardo Jr., 40, was shot and killed on December 24, 2022, in the Montclare neighborhood on Chicago’s Northwest Side. He was driving in the 2500 block of North Rutherford Avenue around 12:50 a.m. when he was shot in the head; his vehicle then crashed into a light pole. He was taken to Loyola University Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead, according to the Cook County medical examiner’s office.

Initial police work did not produce arrests and the case remained open. Prosecutors later accused a Chicago man, Alexis Vazquez, of killing Lamardo during a series of violent events over the Christmas weekend; court hearings alleged Vazquez shot Lamardo twice in the back of the head as he exited the vehicle. The hearings also connected Vazquez and his girlfriend, Marlin Zuniga, to related crimes over that period, with prosecutors pointing to phone-tracking evidence placing the two together before, during, and after the incidents. Both were held without bail as the matter proceeded through court.

Does anyone have information about Lamardo’s movements that night or witnesses who saw the vehicle on North Rutherford Avenue?