Ray Owens, a 27-year-old African American man from Chicago, was shot and killed on June 8, 2015, in the 2000 block of Emerson Street in Evanston, Illinois. He was found in his vehicle with multiple gunshot wounds and was pronounced dead shortly after at Evanston-NorthShore Hospital. That death was Evanston’s first homicide of 2015.

Initial reports said Owens was shot multiple times and witnesses saw a man flee west across a parking lot after the shooting, details that prompted an investigation by the Evanston Police Department with assistance from the North Regional Major Crimes Task Force. No arrests had been announced and the family expressed frustration over the lack of progress and communication from police.

Owens was a father of six children, ages one to nine, and his mother, Katherine Ellis, remembered him as happy and caring. A candlelight vigil drew over 100 mourners. If anyone has information about the shooting or the person seen fleeing that day, please come forward.