Darius Love, a 27-year-old African American man, was found on a South Side Chicago sidewalk on November 23, 2021 with a gunshot wound to the head in the 8000 block of South Cottage Grove Avenue. He was taken to the University of Chicago Medical Center and died of his injuries on November 28, 2021.

Area Two detectives have handled the investigation. Family, friends and neighbors have expressed grief and frustration over the killing and its place in the city’s wider problem with gun violence.

Anyone with information that could help solve Darius Love’s murder is asked to contact the investigating detectives.