Marissa S. Boyd-Stingley was 19 when she was shot and killed on June 25, 2013, while riding in a car with friends in the Park Manor neighborhood on Chicago’s South Side. The shooting occurred about 2:30 a.m. after a black SUV pulled up alongside their vehicle at 73rd Street and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Drive. According to accounts, the SUV’s driver stared into the car; after a passenger inside commented on the driver’s misaligned left eye, the driver opened fire, striking all four occupants. Boyd-Stingley, who was seated in the middle of the back seat, was pronounced dead at the scene.

The gun used was recovered a few weeks after the shooting but was not connected to this homicide until 2016; the man then found with the weapon was on parole and would not say how he obtained it. Years later detectives returned to the case after Boyd-Stingley’s mother, Nortasha Stingley, mentioned a neighborhood man nicknamed Rico who matched the cocked-eye description. That lead produced a photo lineup in which one surviving passenger, four years after the shooting, identified Reginald Reed; a judge later described the identification evidence as weak. In November 2020 Reginald Reed, then 43, was charged with Boyd-Stingley’s murder. Does anyone have information about the night of June 25, 2013, or recall seeing either vehicle near 73rd and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Drive?