Dylan Zavala was 18 when he was found shot in the head in an alley off the 2900 block of West Pershing Road in Brighton Park on the morning of August 10, 2018. First responders transported him to Mount Sinai Hospital around 8:10 a.m., where he was pronounced dead. Officials listed him as a Douglas Park resident.

Friends and community members remembered Dylan as a creative teenager who had just graduated from Curie Metropolitan High School and recently been hired at Portillo’s. A year earlier he performed with Storycatchers Theatre in a piece based on his own writing, reflecting his interest in performance and storytelling.

If anyone knew Dylan, his routines, or saw something in Brighton Park that morning, please share information that could help clarify what happened.