Fifteen-year-old Jaylin Ellzey was killed in a drive-by shooting on May 14, 2019, in the Roseland neighborhood of Chicago. Jaylin and a 23-year-old woman were standing in the 200 block of West 113th Street around 2:15 p.m. when someone in a vehicle opened fire. Jaylin was struck in the head, abdomen, and lower body and was taken to Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, where he later died; the woman was also hospitalized in serious condition with a gunshot wound to the chest.

Twenty-nine-year-old Antawan Smith was arrested and charged in connection with the shooting. Police say Smith was in the vehicle that pulled up and fired into the pair. He was arrested on May 25, 2019, after allegedly fleeing a traffic stop, crashing in the 6900 block of South Marshfield Avenue, and being found with a gun. A Cook County judge denied him bail at a May 27, 2019 hearing. Smith’s record, as reported, included multiple prior gun charges and a prior prison term.

Jaylin was a freshman at Fenger Academy High School who lived with his mother in Roseland and had two sisters and three brothers. He made rap and hip-hop music under the name King CEO and was remembered by his family as outgoing and kindhearted. Does anyone who knew Jaylin or saw him around Roseland that afternoon have information to share?