Jakub “Kuba” Marchewka, 28, a Polish immigrant living in Chicago’s Belmont Cragin neighborhood, was shot and killed after a parking-lot confrontation on April 4, 2021. The encounter began around 4:30 p.m. when Marchewka stopped at Max’s Food & Liquor in Portage Park and accidentally bumped a neighboring car. A woman in that car began yelling, the car’s owner emerged from the store, and a physical fight broke out between Marchewka and the other man while Marchewka’s father was present. During the altercation the other man produced a gun and shot Marchewka in the chest; Marchewka was taken to Loyola University Medical Center and pronounced dead.

Surveillance video captured the shooting but the shooter initially fled and no immediate arrest was made. In May 2021, 24-year-old Everardo Olmos was identified from the footage and charged with first-degree murder; a judge denied him bail. At the February 2026 bench trial the judge acquitted Olmos of all charges, ruling he had acted in self-defense and that prosecutors had not met their burden, and stating Marchewka had been the aggressor. If readers knew Jakub Marchewka or saw the confrontation, please share any information that might still be relevant.