Izzah Readus, a 29-year-old African American man, was killed in Chicago’s South Side Kenwood neighborhood on September 14, 2015. According to reports, Readus was inside a basement apartment in the 800 block of East Bowen Avenue when an unidentified person produced a handgun and fired, striking him in the head. He was taken to Northwestern Memorial Hospital and pronounced dead at 2:11 a.m. on September 14. The Cook County medical examiner ruled the cause of death a gunshot wound to the head.

The shooting was reported to have occurred at about 10:40 p.m. the previous night. The suspect fled the scene and, as of the incident report, no arrest or named suspect had been announced and the case remains unsolved. Few other details about motive or circumstances have been released.

If anyone has information about who might have been responsible or saw activity on East Bowen Avenue that night, please come forward to assist the investigation.