Hector Hernandez was 21 when he died on April 7, 2014, in Chicago’s Gage Park neighborhood. According to reports, Hernandez was at his girlfriend’s home and experiencing a mental health crisis; he was holding a kitchen knife to his neck and threatening to harm himself when officers Patrick Kelly and Antonio Corral arrived. The officers fired 13 shots, eight striking Hernandez in the back, and he died at the scene.

A civil jury later found the two officers and the City of Chicago liable for Hernandez’s death, awarding his family $742,500 in damages after reducing the award because the jury assigned Hernandez 45% fault. The verdict criticized the use of excessive force in a situation involving a person in apparent mental distress and highlighted questions about de-escalation and how the police handle mental health crises.

Did anyone in Gage Park at the time have information about what happened that evening or about interactions between Hernandez and responding officers?