Joseph Christopher Sunpongco was 16 when he was shot and killed in Chicago on October 4, 2021. Known to family as Kuya JC, he was born December 24, 2004, in the Philippines and had lived in Chicago for about a decade. Described as an honor student who enjoyed recording rap music, basketball, skateboarding and time with friends and family, he was a passenger in a car traveling eastbound on West Irving Park Road in the Lake View neighborhood around 10:50 p.m. that night.

According to investigators, a shootout occurred between the car he rode in and a Dodge sedan; shots were exchanged and Joseph was struck in the head. The car he was in then crashed into a parked vehicle in the 4000 block of North Ashland Avenue. A gun was found inside the vehicle he rode in, the driver fled the scene, and Joseph was taken to Illinois Masonic Medical Center where he was pronounced dead. Chicago police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office have been involved and no arrests have been announced; the case remains open.

Did anyone in the Lake View area see either vehicle or the shooting on the night of October 4, 2021?