Emmanuel C. Stokes, 28, was killed in a mass shooting at Nadia Fish and Chicken at 75th Street and Coles Avenue in Chicago’s South Shore neighborhood on March 30, 2017. A gunman entered the restaurant around 3:30 p.m. and opened fire, killing Stokes along with Edwin Davis, 32, and brothers Raheem Jackson, 19, and Dillon Jackson, 20. The shooting was one of several violent incidents that day that together resulted in seven deaths, and it was reported as possibly motivated by revenge connected to the death of a victim’s father.

In April 2017 Maurice Harris, then 22, was arrested and charged with more than two dozen counts including murder, attempted murder, and aggravated discharge of a firearm; he was held without bail. In June 2020 Cook County prosecutors dropped all charges after reviewing the evidence, concluding eyewitness accounts were unreliable and the totality of the evidence was insufficient to meet the burden of proof.

Anyone who knew Emmanuel, was at Nadia Fish and Chicken that day, or has information about the shooting is asked to come forward.