Patrick Boswell was 14 when he was fatally shot on January 2, 2015, in Rosemont, Illinois. An eighth-grade student at Iroquois Community School in Des Plaines, he was found in an easement between two residential buildings with a gunshot wound to the head. The shooting was Rosemont’s first homicide in a decade.

Investigators determined the death resulted from a gang-related shooting. Cesar Garay, 20, was identified as the person who fired into a group that included rival gang members; Patrick, who was not involved in gang activity, was struck and killed. Garay was arrested and charged with first-degree murder and later pleaded guilty. He accepted a plea deal that yielded a 28-year prison term without the possibility of early parole.

Patrick loved animals, football, and working with machines. His mother, Patricia Frontain, founded Patrick Lives On... To End Gun Violence to honor his memory and to campaign against gun violence.

Did anyone in the Rosemont or Des Plaines area have contact with Patrick or remember the night of January 2, 2015?