Maurice Delaney, 38, of Skokie, Illinois, was shot to death on January 1, 2017, in Chicago. The shooting happened about 4:30 a.m. in the second-floor lounge of Iyanze Bolat West African Cuisine in the Uptown neighborhood as a party was ending. Delaney, known as Head, was struck in the chest and right leg and was pronounced dead at Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center.

A second victim, 31-year-old Ali Mohamed, was also shot multiple times and died at the same hospital. Investigators recovered shell casings at the restaurant but no firearms. Reports note Delaney’s association with the Gangster Disciples North Pole faction near Thorndale and Winthrop. No arrests or publicly identified suspects have been announced and the case remains under investigation.