Donte Blackwell, 23, was shot and killed in Evanston, Illinois, around 1:20 a.m. on August 31, 2015, on the 1800 block of Dodge Avenue. Police say he was shot once in the torso, taken to Evanston Hospital and pronounced dead. A 21-year-old Evanston man was also wounded in the same incident, suffering gunshot wounds to an arm and a leg; his injuries were described as non-life-threatening.

Witnesses reported that two males on bicycles approached the victims, opened fire and fled northbound on Dodge Avenue. The Evanston Police Department and the North Regional Major Crimes Task Force investigated, but no arrests were immediately reported and the suspects remained at large. Investigators noted Blackwell had survived a prior 2012 shooting that was tied to a feud between rival groups with gang affiliations, and that the 2015 attack was suspected to be connected to that dispute.

Blackwell’s family said he had recently returned to church and left behind two young children, Lamontae, aged five, and Donte Jr., who was about one month old. Does anyone have information about that night or those seen on bicycles in the area?