Keiwaun Crayton, a 23-year-old African American man, was killed on August 19, 2021, aboard a Chicago Transit Authority Red Line train. According to surveillance footage, Crayton boarded a train car around 4:15 p.m. while selling loose cigarettes. Seventeen-year-old Sherell Stafford and two others followed as Crayton moved between cars. When the train stopped at Garfield, Stafford and the others exited their car and approached Crayton’s car; Stafford lifted his shirt to show a gun, a physical struggle followed, and Stafford then pulled out the weapon and shot Crayton multiple times. Crayton fell backward against the door and the suspects fled, later boarding a CTA bus.

Police identified Stafford after recovering his fingerprints from a McDonald’s cup he had been holding on the train; Stafford, who was on probation for a 2020 juvenile gun conviction, was charged with first-degree murder as an adult and held without bail. Prosecutors have not described a clear motive. If anyone witnessed the incident or has information about Crayton or the people who fled the train, please share what is known.