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David Scott was a 24-year-old African American man killed on July 5, 2020, in the Riverdale neighborhood on Chicago’s Far South Side. He and a 20-year-old man were standing in a parking lot in the 1000 block of East 132nd Street when they argued with a male suspect who briefly left and then returned, firing shots through a door. Scott was struck in the left side of his torso, taken to Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, and pronounced dead; an autopsy ruled the death a homicide from gunshot wounds. The other man was shot in the leg and treated in fair condition.

Police identified the suspect as 32-year-old Donnell Banton, who was later charged with murder and attempted murder. Investigators say Banton had confronted people at a Fourth of July party at the Altgeld Gardens public housing complex that night, fired multiple shots through the apartment door after a minor altercation, then passed the gun to another person who hid it in a car trunk. Surveillance from the Chicago Housing Authority captured the shooting, and Banton was arrested on a warrant in Crown Point, Indiana. Banton’s record reportedly included prior felony convictions for identity theft, assisting a criminal, possession of a controlled substance, and unlawful use of a weapon.

Did anyone in the Riverdale area see or record the confrontation that night who hasn’t already spoken to investigators?