Marquise J. Smith was a 26-year-old Black man from Kankakee, Illinois, who was shot on the evening of Sunday, September 13, 2020, in the 300-block of South Wildwood Avenue. He was one of two people wounded in separate shootings in the city that day. Smith was taken to Loyola University Medical Center, where he later died from his injuries.

The Kankakee Police Department investigated the shooting as a homicide. Authorities identified 21-year-old DeJour Turner-Owens as a suspect; he was arrested on Tuesday, September 15, 2020, and charged with first-degree murder. Bond was set at $5 million. The case later went to trial, and Turner-Owens was found not guilty. Following the acquittal, no one has been held legally responsible for Smith’s death and the homicide remains unsolved.

Did anyone in Kankakee see or hear anything on South Wildwood Avenue that night that could help piece together what happened to Marquise Smith?