Jerrell Hughes, a 25-year-old African American man from Maywood, Illinois, was shot multiple times and killed on February 15, 2020. The shooting happened around 11:45 p.m. in the 1400 block of South 17th Avenue in Maywood. The Cook County medical examiner’s office says Hughes was pronounced dead at 4:40 a.m. the next day at Loyola University Medical Center and confirmed the death as a homicide.

Initial reports confused the location, with some accounts placing the shooting in Chicago, but the medical examiner and local reporting place the incident in Maywood, where Hughes lived. Police have said little about the circumstances that led to the shooting, and there were no immediate arrests or publicly identified suspects; the case remains under investigation.

If anyone has information about what happened to Jerrell Hughes on February 15, 2020, please share what you know with the Maywood Police Department.