On January 27, 2021, 26-year-old Gino Dameron was found fatally shot inside an elevator of a building in the 3500 block of South Cottage Grove Avenue in Chicago’s Oakland neighborhood. Security officers discovered Dameron around 3:45 p.m.; he had sustained multiple gunshot wounds and was pronounced dead at the scene.

Police identified 27-year-old acquaintance Demetris Johnson as the primary suspect. Surveillance footage reportedly shows Johnson with a handgun in the building’s lobby and later carrying it in a stairwell, then fleeing as officers arrived. A security guard identified him as the person who left with a handgun-like bulge under his clothes. Tests for gunpowder on Johnson’s hands were positive, and officers located him after witnesses reported he had boarded a southbound CTA bus and exited at 46th Street. Johnson was on bail and wearing an electronic monitoring bracelet at the time; his mother had called police earlier that day saying he was having a mental episode and had a firearm.

If anyone has information about Gino Dameron, the building, or the events that afternoon, please share what is known.