Lashonda Hearts, 47, was fatally shot on November 15, 2021, while working as an armored truck driver for GARDA World at a Bank of America branch in Chicago’s Chatham neighborhood. The shooting occurred around 10:19 a.m. as Hearts and colleagues were loading an ATM and were approached by three armed individuals. A gun battle followed; Hearts was struck six times and later died. Another guard was critically wounded and a third returned fire and was not hit.

Police identified two suspects, Antwon Montgomery, 19, and Deandre Jennings, 20, and charged them with first-degree murder in connection with Hearts’s death. Reports say the suspects fled the scene in a dark-colored vehicle and were captured on surveillance entering a nearby strip mall, where one of them committed another robbery.

The case underlined the risks faced by armored transport crews and deeply affected Hearts’s family, colleagues, and the community. If anyone has information that could help clarify what happened that morning, please come forward.