Kearra Shorae Thomas, a 33-year-old certified nursing assistant, was shot and killed on July 11, 2020, in Chicago. She had been attending a vigil in the 8000 block of South Woodlawn Avenue in Avalon Park around 9:40 p.m. when a gunman approached and opened fire. Thomas was struck in the chest and later pronounced dead at the University of Chicago Medical Center; the Cook County medical examiner ruled her death a homicide.

Two other women, both 28, were wounded in the same attack — one shot in the arm and another struck in the buttocks — but survived. No arrests had been announced and police reported few leads, with Area Two detectives continuing the investigation. Family members described the loss as devastating and said Thomas was the light of her daughter Kamaya Thomas’s world.

Did anyone in the community see or hear anything that night that could help identify the shooter?