Jovantay Alexander, 19, was found dead the night of January 19, 2013, near 54th and Laflin Street in Chicago’s Back of the Yards. Police and the Cook County Medical Examiner reported he had been shot in the face and was pronounced dead at the scene after a 9:30 p.m. call. Initial accounts said he had been shot once in the face and multiple times in the body.

Alexander was identified as living on the 1800 block of East 72nd Street, a reminder he was far from home that winter night. Detectives canvassed the area, but police said they did not believe he was affiliated with a gang. Reporters were told no one was in custody, no suspect descriptions were released, and later coverage did not report an identified suspect.

Did anyone in the Back of the Yards area at the time remember seeing Jovantay or noticing anything unusual that night?