Jose Morales, a 38-year-old Hispanic man, was shot in the abdomen on August 17, 2022, while standing on a sidewalk in the 4800 block of South Wolcott Avenue in Chicago’s Back of the Yards neighborhood. He was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital and died of his wounds, the Cook County medical examiner listing a gunshot wound to the abdomen as the cause of death.

Investigators arrested a 16-year-old boy on November 19, 2022, about half a mile from the shooting scene; the teenager has been charged with first-degree murder. Authorities have not released a motive or detailed circumstances leading up to the shooting.

Did anyone in the Back of the Yards area see or hear anything on the evening of August 17, 2022, that could help explain what happened?