Melody Joiner, a 42-year-old African American woman, was killed on May 5, 2022, in a domestic shooting in the Bronzeville neighborhood of Chicago. Officers found her around 9 a.m. in the 4300 block of South King Drive with a gunshot wound to the chest; she was pronounced dead at the scene and identified by the Cook County medical examiner’s office. Blood streaks suggested she had been dragged from her bedroom to the kitchen floor where she was found unresponsive.

Investigators say the shooter was her boyfriend, Rodearl McElroy, 29, who was on electronic monitoring at the time and has a prior federal conviction for unlawful transportation of firearms. On the morning of the killing McElroy reportedly fled the apartment, gave a crate containing a small safe and a red ammunition magazine to two men in a second-floor unit, then left in a blue car. He went to a scheduled hearing at the Leighton Criminal Courthouse and later called a friend from the apartment, asking them to stay with the children, remove money from Joiner’s pockets, and to say a man in black had been on the back porch.

The investigation is ongoing and prosecutors have presented evidence linking McElroy to the shooting. Did anyone in Bronzeville see or hear anything around the 4300 block of South King Drive that morning?