Cameron Rudder, a 27-year-old African American man, was found fatally shot during a wellness check on December 13, 2020, at a home in the 300 block of East 53rd Street in Washington Park, Chicago. Officers discovered him unresponsive with a gunshot wound to the neck; the Cook County medical examiner pronounced him dead at the scene. The shooting likely occurred sometime between 9 p.m. on December 12 and 7 p.m. on December 13.

Area One detectives classified the death a homicide. Initial reports placed the shooting at a house party near 53rd Street and Prairie Avenue; the body was not found until the following day. Investigators identified a 14-year-old boy as a suspected shooter, but no charges had been filed against the juvenile in the reports. Cameron’s mother, Consuello Rudder, voiced grief and confusion over a child carrying a gun. The case also drew attention to a rise in arrests of juveniles for first-degree murder in Chicago.

Did anyone attend that party or see Cameron in the hours before the shooting?