Sheridan Freeman was 23 and an aspiring videographer when he was shot and killed on December 14, 2021. The shooting happened about 6:30 a.m. inside a small wood-frame home on the 12000 block of South Stewart Avenue in the West Pullman neighborhood of Chicago, less than a mile from where he lived. The killing was recorded as Chicago’s 800th homicide that year.

Freeman, who was African American, left behind a 1-year-old son and had hoped to attend film school; he often filmed his brother rapping. His mother, Diane Archer, described him as fun-loving, smart, and talented. Police have released few details about the investigation and, as of the latest reports, no arrests have been made.

The shooting occurred in a neighborhood that had seen a sharp rise in violence, including a drive-by wounding on the same block the day before, and where murders rose dramatically since 2019 despite city efforts aimed at violence reduction. Did anyone in West Pullman see or hear anything that morning that could help Sheridan’s family and investigators?