Michael Dumas was 31 when he was shot and killed on December 24, 2019, in Chicago. He and a 52-year-old man were standing on the sidewalk in the 700 block of North Lotus Avenue when two males approached and opened fire. Dumas was struck multiple times and died at Stroger Hospital that evening; the older man was injured but stabilized and survived.

The shooting was one of several incidents across the city on Christmas Eve 2019; nine people were shot that day and one died. Dumas is remembered by family as a kind and devoted family man.

If anyone has information about the shooting on North Lotus Avenue on December 24, 2019, please share what you know.