Trevail ’Trey’ Ridgell was 17 when he was killed on the night of October 14, 2017. He and a 19-year-old friend, Justin Gilbert, were sitting in a parked van on the 8900 block of South Union Avenue in the Auburn Gresham neighborhood of Chicago just after 10:25 p.m. when someone in a passing gray sedan opened fire. Both teens were struck multiple times and pronounced dead at the scene.

Ridgell was remembered by teammates at Wendell Phillips Academy; classmates recalled the image of him sitting in that van, a moment that remained fixed in their memories. Area South detectives opened a homicide investigation, canvassed the area and collected witness accounts that described the shooters firing from a moving car before fleeing.

Anyone with information about the shooting or the gray sedan that passed that night is asked to come forward.