Michael Montrell Sutton Jr., 31, was shot on June 23, 2018, in Bronzeville, Chicago, around 12:10 a.m. He was one of five people standing on a sidewalk on the 100 block of East 51st Street when someone in a gray vehicle opened fire. Several people were wounded: a 15-year-old boy (leg), a 50-year-old man (back), a 26-year-old man (head) and a 33-year-old man (lower back). Sutton Jr. died of his injuries four days later on June 27, 2018; the Chicago Police and the Cook County Medical Examiner’s Office confirmed his death and an autopsy was performed, though the specific cause of death was not immediately released.

Area Central detectives opened a homicide investigation. The shooting was described as a mass shooting that shocked the local community amid wider concerns about gun violence in the city.

If anyone has information about the shooting on East 51st Street that could help investigators or Sutton Jr.’s family, please come forward.