Alexandria Imani Burgos was 18 when she was killed on October 19, 2014, inside a Belmont Cragin apartment in Chicago. She had gone to pick up her younger brother when gunfire erupted outside; bullets entered through a kitchen window and struck her in the head and arm, killing her instantly. Alexandria had recently graduated from Von Steuben High School and was a freshman at Wilbur Wright College planning to become a social worker.

Her parents, Milagros Millie Burgos and Rafael Burgos, have continued to seek justice and to advocate for gun reform. The family has joined other victims’ families in public gatherings and supported measures such as an assault weapons ban, the Firearm Industry Responsibility Act, and restrictions on ghost guns, and they have backed proposals addressing firearm removal when a domestic violence survivor holds a restraining order. The homicide remains unsolved and no suspects have been identified.

If anyone knew Alexandria or has information about the shooting that killed her, please come forward.