Cristian Alexander Martinez-Ordaz, 16, was shot while riding in a car stopped at a red light in Chicago’s Brighton Park just after 2 a.m. on July 31, 2022. The vehicle was struck while stopped in the 4700 block of South Kedzie Avenue; the driver accelerated and the car then collided with a tree a block north. Martinez-Ordaz was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital with a gunshot wound to the head and was pronounced dead there a short time later. A 19-year-old companion suffered only a graze wound to the head and was treated at Saint Anthony Hospital in good condition.

Chicago police from Area One described the shooter or shooters as unknown and said no one was in custody in the immediate aftermath. Detectives canvassed the Kedzie corridor and appealed for tips and surveillance to reconstruct the shooting. The investigation was ongoing and no suspects had been publicly named.

Did anyone in the Brighton Park area that night see the car at the light or have footage that could help investigators?