Donzell Bailey, a 30-year-old African American man, was found unresponsive with a gunshot wound to the forehead outside an apartment building in the 6800 block of South Ridgeland Avenue in Chicago’s South Shore neighborhood on July 1, 2021, about 8:25 a.m. The Cook County medical examiner confirmed his identity and pronounced him dead at the scene. The shooting occurred on a day that included multiple shootings and fatalities across the city.

Area One detectives handled the investigation. Clarence Leachman, 45, was arrested by members of the Great Lakes Regional Fugitive Task Force and charged with first-degree murder; he was scheduled to appear in bond court after the arrest. Few other public details are available about events leading up to the shooting or witnesses. If anyone has information about what happened to Donzell Bailey or saw activity around South Ridgeland Avenue that morning, please come forward.