Patrick Patterson, a 58-year-old African American man, was shot and killed on January 1, 2021, in Chicago’s Bronzeville neighborhood. He was driving a Volvo sedan on the 4700 block of South King Drive around 3:15 a.m. when he was struck in the neck by gunfire, lost control of the car and crashed into a vacant lot. Patterson was taken to the University of Chicago Medical Center and pronounced dead; the Cook County medical examiner ruled the death a homicide from a gunshot wound to the neck.

Area One detectives are handling the investigation. The case remains open and investigators are seeking information from anyone who may know something that could help solve the murder.

Did anyone in Bronzeville see or hear anything on the night of January 1, 2021, that could help investigators?