Devante Boldon, 25, was found shot to death in the driver’s seat of a vehicle that had crashed into a building in Chicago’s South Shore neighborhood on May 17, 2019. Responding officers located him after a ShotSpotter alert; he had gunshot wounds to the back and head. The Cook County medical examiner ruled the death a homicide. Area Central detectives investigated, but no suspects have been arrested.

Boldon had pursued legal action against the Chicago Police Department before his death. In 2017 he filed a lawsuit alleging officers stole $3,000, falsely arrested him during a raid, roughed him up and injured his arm, and that he was wrongfully detained in Cook County Jail for nine months; the charges against him were dismissed in May 2018. That raid was later part of a broader probe that produced federal charges against two officers involved.

The motive and perpetrators remain unknown and the case is still open. If anyone knew Devante, his routines, associates, or saw activity around the crash site on May 17, 2019, please share information with investigators.