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Lewis Funches was a 22-year-old African American man who died after being shot in the head at a large block party on South Rhodes Avenue in Chicago on June 27, 2020. Multiple people were shot during the gathering; Funches spent a week in a coma at the University of Chicago Medical Center and died on July 3, 2020. He was not believed to be the intended target.

Funches was an intern in District 15 who had completed the tests to join the police academy and was active in the Ultimate Threat Dance Corp. His mother, Tenika Blackman, remained at his bedside during his hospitalization. The shooting also killed another man, Kehinde A. Ojunleye, and injured two other men, ages 19 and 21. Two suspects were questioned and released without charges; Area One detectives were handling the investigation.

Did anyone at the block party or living nearby see something that could help investigators?