On November 25, 2016, in Chicago’s Homan Square neighborhood, 35-year-old Jeffery Banks was fatally shot shortly before 12:30 a.m. in the 600 block of Central Park Avenue. Officers on patrol heard gunfire and reportedly observed 37-year-old Cleotha Mitchell shooting Banks. Mitchell also allegedly shot a second person in the arm; that person was hospitalized in stable condition.

Responding officers engaged with Mitchell, and both Banks and Mitchell were pronounced dead at the scene. The Independent Police Review Authority opened an investigation into the officers’ use of force in this incident. The shooting was one of at least eight fatal shootings during a particularly violent Thanksgiving weekend in the city that saw at least 58 people shot.

If anyone witnessed the incident in the 600 block of Central Park Avenue that night or has information about the events leading up to the shooting, please share what is known.