Dariontae Adams, a 21-year-old African American man, was found with a gunshot wound to the head on May 24, 2020, shortly after 7:45 a.m. in the 1000 block of North Drake Avenue in Humboldt Park on Chicago’s Northwest Side. An automated ShotSpotter alert brought officers to the scene; Adams was taken to John H. Stroger Jr. Hospital and pronounced dead. The Cook County medical examiner identified him and ruled the death a homicide.

The shooting occurred during a violent Memorial Day weekend in Chicago when multiple shootings were reported across the city. Months later, police announced an arrest in the case and charged a 21-year-old man, Perry Jackson of the Austin neighborhood, with first-degree murder in connection with Adams’s death. Anyone with information about Dariontae Adams, his movements that morning, or the incident on North Drake Avenue is asked to come forward.