Devonshay Lofton was 16 when he was shot and killed in Chicago’s Old Town neighborhood on September 18, 2014. He was walking near the 1300 block of North Cleveland Avenue around 9:30 p.m. when a shooter on a bicycle fired several rounds, striking him multiple times in the back. Lofton was taken to Northwestern Memorial Hospital and later pronounced dead. Those who knew him described him as highly respected and well-mannered; he was a member of Secretary of State Jesse White’s tumbling team.

Investigators arrested 19-year-old Quinton Evans, who was on parole for a prior gun conviction, after witnesses placed him at the scene. Prosecutors charged Evans with murder; he was ordered held on $1 million bail. During the incident a pursuing police officer accidentally shot himself in the foot. Prosecutors did not offer a clear motive, and Jesse White suggested the shooting could have been mistaken identity or random violence.