Diviris Garfeed, a 33-year-old African American man, was fatally shot shortly after midnight on March 2, 2020, on the 1000 block of North Springfield Avenue in Chicago’s Humboldt Park neighborhood. That passenger, identified as 20-year-old Julius Thomas III, allegedly produced a large shiny handgun and fired multiple shots. Garfeed was found barely breathing with head and leg wounds and died hours later at Mount Sinai Hospital.

Surveillance video reportedly captured the shooting and the Pontiac, which was registered to Thomas. Investigators say a witness saw the shooter wearing a blue sweater; Thomas appeared wearing the same sweater in a Facebook Live video aired about two hours after the shooting in which he boasted about the weapon and referenced putting two bodies on it. Police recovered a 9-mm shell casing from the vehicle and took Thomas into custody the day after the killing; he was charged with first-degree murder and held without bail. Anyone with information about Garfeed or the events that night is asked to come forward.