Johnny Zolicoffer, a 43-year-old Black man who lived in the Austin neighborhood, was shot during the predawn hours of Father’s Day weekend while standing along the 1200 block of South Farrar Drive on the northern edge of Douglass Park in North Lawndale. Officers found him unresponsive with gunshot wounds to the neck, upper thigh, and back and he was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital in critical condition. He died at the hospital ten days later on Tuesday, June 30, 2020, and the medical examiner ruled his death a homicide.

The shooting occurred amid a citywide surge of violence that weekend, when more than a hundred people were shot across Chicago. The scene on Farrar Drive was reportedly quiet when police arrived and offered little to explain the sudden burst of gunfire. Area Four detectives opened the investigation, and public updates indicated there were no arrests and no suspects identified, leaving the case open as the trail cooled.

If anyone has information about what happened that early morning on Farrar Drive or knew Johnny, please come forward to investigators.