On the night of December 14, 2021, officers responded to the 300 block of West 120th Street in West Pullman after reports of gunfire. Around 9:15 p.m., Tyrone T. Smith—also recorded publicly as Tyrone Smith and as Tyrone ’Smith’ Hayes—a 46-year-old Black man from Chicago, was found with a gunshot wound to the chest. He was taken to the University of Chicago Medical Center and pronounced dead there.

Detectives canvassed the block and secured the scene, but no one was in custody that night. The killing remained unsolved in the city’s year-end tallies.

If anyone has information about Tyrone’s final movements on December 14, 2021, or saw anything that night on West 120th Street, please come forward.