On a gray Sunday afternoon in early January 2017, 18 year old Abdallah Y. Abdallah was sitting in the driver’s seat of a Lexus on the 600 block of West 16th Street in Chicago Heights when gunfire erupted. Officers who ran to the scene around 3 p.m. found him slumped over with a gunshot wound to the head; a second man, 20, was found nearby with a wound to his arm. Paramedics transported Abdallah to St. James Health in Chicago Heights and he died there at 2:15 p.m. the following Wednesday, January 11, 2017. Records list him as a resident of the 8500 block of Tullamore Drive in Tinley Park.

In the days after the shooting, police took three men into custody and charged each with first-degree murder, aggravated battery, and armed robbery: David Phillips, 19, and Cornell Reed, 22, both of Chicago Heights, and Juwan Taylor, 18, of Gary, Indiana. A judge ordered them held without bond and court dates were set. The Lexus where Abdallah was found became the scene investigators focused on as the community responded to the loss.

If anyone knew Abdallah, saw the Lexus that afternoon, or has information about the shooting, please come forward.