Tramaine Taylor, a 40-year-old African American man, was shot and killed on September 30, 2018, in the Englewood neighborhood of Chicago. Officers responding to reports of shots fired found him around 7 p.m. on the 5700 block of South Sangamon Street with multiple gunshot wounds to his face. He was taken to a nearby hospital and pronounced dead. Taylor lived about a block from where the shooting occurred.

Area North detectives handled the homicide investigation. Investigators reported no suspects or arrests in the immediate aftermath, and the case has seen no significant developments in identifying a shooter; the report notes a lack of witnesses and concrete evidence. The family and community continue to seek answers about why Taylor appears to have been targeted. Did anyone in the Englewood area see or hear anything that night that could help the investigation?