Courtney Macon was a 24-year-old Black man and father from Chicago’s Jackson Park Highlands neighborhood. He was remembered by family and friends as loving and giving.

On the evening of Saturday, April 3, 2021, Macon was in the West Town neighborhood. Around 7:25 p.m. someone approached him in an alley in the 2000 block of West Maypole Avenue and shot him. He was struck in the abdomen and taken to Stroger Hospital in critical condition, where he died in the early morning of Sunday, April 4, 2021; the Cook County medical examiner pronounced him dead at 2:19 a.m. His death was one of seven homicides from gun violence in Chicago over that Easter weekend.

Chicago police opened an investigation; initial reports from April 2021 said no suspect had been publicly identified and no arrests were made, and the case remains unsolved. If anyone knew Courtney or has information about the shooting, please come forward.