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Raymond Figgers, a 42-year-old African American man, was shot dead on the evening of July 27, 2018, on the sidewalk in the Near West Side neighborhood of Chicago. He was found unresponsive with a gunshot wound to the head around 11:30 p.m. in the first block of South Campbell Avenue and later pronounced dead at Stroger Hospital.

Authorities charged 37-year-old Leanthy Sims of the Lawndale neighborhood with first-degree murder. Prosecutors say Sims confronted Figgers in front of a Salvation Army Community Center, accused him of having an affair with Sims’ wife, then shot Figgers in the hand and in the head. Video surveillance captured the shooting, a witness corroborated the confrontation, and investigators recovered a shell casing at the scene plus a second casing in Sims’ car; preliminary testing matched both casings to the same gun. Sims fled but was taken into custody without incident and held without bail.

Does anyone have additional information about Figgers, the location, or the events that night?