Laniyah Murphy, a 20-year-old Black woman from Chicago, was shot and killed on January 4, 2022, while sitting in a parked car in the West Pullman neighborhood on the city’s South Side. The bullet struck her in the head and she was pronounced dead at the scene. The person who shot her was described as an acquaintance and the shooting followed an argument.

Murphy was a student of sociology at Governors State University and a longtime anti-violence activist involved with St. Sabina Catholic Church’s youth programs and the B.R.A.V.E. Youth Leaders. She had survived a gunshot wound to the head in 2018, and her activism was tied to efforts to prevent the kind of violence that ultimately took her life. No arrests have been announced and the investigation remains open.

Does anyone have information about Laniyah’s last movements or the argument that led to the shooting?