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Stephon Mack, 24, was fatally shot in a targeted attack on the afternoon of January 27, 2022, in Chicago. At about 3:45 p.m., as Mack was leaving the Youth Peace Center of Roseland on West 111th Street, two gunmen emerged from a dark-colored Chrysler 300 and opened fire. Mack was struck multiple times in the head and chest and was pronounced dead at a hospital. A 40-year-old security guard at the youth center was also wounded in the leg and survived.

Investigators later described the killing as a murder-for-hire plot. Federal prosecutors indicted two Chicago men, Anthony Montgomery-Wilson, 24, and Preston Powell, 23, on murder-for-hire and related conspiracy charges; Montgomery-Wilson faced an additional firearm charge. The indictment alleged the two conspired with others to kill Mack in exchange for money. Court documents unsealed in December 2024 linked the shooting to rapper Durk Devontay Banks, with an affidavit alleging he orchestrated and funded the plot in retaliation for the 2021 killing of his brother.

What additional information about Mack, the Youth Peace Center, or the people involved might help explain how this plot was planned and carried out?