Stephanie Brooks, 27, was shot and killed during an attempted home invasion on February 24, 2020, in the Ravenswood Manor neighborhood of Chicago. The shooting happened about 9:30 p.m. at a four-story apartment building on the 4400 block of North Francisco Avenue. Brooks and a friend answered a knock; a masked gunman dressed in black tried to force his way inside, and Brooks was shot multiple times in the chest and pronounced dead at the scene.

Police have treated the attack as targeted rather than random. Investigators believe it may have been retaliation tied to a February 2, 2020, gang-related shooting that injured a firefighter responding to a car fire in Albany Park. Brooks was reportedly associated with one of the people involved in that earlier incident but did not have formal gang ties herself. No arrests had been announced and detectives were examining links between the two episodes to establish motive and identify suspects.

Brooks leaves three young children, including 1-year-old twins and a 7-year-old daughter. Anyone with information about the shooting or connections between the incidents is asked to come forward.