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Brandon Cage, a man in his 30s, was fatally shot on June 12, 2013, in the Chicago Lawn neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois. The shooting happened about 1:30 a.m. on the 3300 block of West 60th Street after a group in a car stopped and a man later identified as Abel Ruiz demanded that Cage renounce his affiliation with the Gangster Disciples by throwing down the fork hand sign. Cage refused and identified himself as a Gangster Disciples member; Ruiz then shot him three times in the chest.

Cage was taken to Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn and pronounced dead at 3 a.m. The driver who remained at the scene called police and provided a description of Ruiz and the getaway car; Ruiz fled but was stopped soon after during a traffic stop. While in custody he attempted to kick out police car windows and was Tasered, and he later confessed to the shooting while in lockup. Ruiz was charged with first-degree murder, tried, convicted on May 21, 2016, and sentenced to 51 years in prison.

Was anyone in the neighborhood that night able to see the car that stopped on West 60th Street or recognize the people inside?