Miles Adrian Thompson was an 18-year-old visiting family in Chicago’s Austin neighborhood when he was found fatally shot the morning of July 8, 2021, one day before his nineteenth birthday. Police discovered him unresponsive in the alley behind his father’s home in the first block of North Mayfield Avenue shortly after 7 a.m.; he had suffered a gunshot wound to the chest and was pronounced dead at the scene, with the Cook County medical examiner recording the time of death as 7:15 a.m.

Thompson was a 2020 graduate of Glenbrook North High School in Northbrook, a standout defensive player who had earned a scholarship to St. Ambrose University. Relatives and coaches remembered him as driven, entrepreneurial, and determined. Area Four detectives opened a homicide investigation, canvassed the neighborhood, and reviewed surveillance video for leads, but police initially said no arrests had been made and local coverage weeks later still reported no charges.

Memorial services were held on July 17, 2021, as friends and family celebrated his life and raised funds in his memory. If anyone in the Austin neighborhood that morning or nearby has information that could help the investigation, please come forward.