Damian Barnes, a 22-year-old African American man, was shot and killed in Chicago on January 13, 2013. He was sitting in the driver’s seat of a parked vehicle in the North Lawndale neighborhood when an assailant entered the car and shot him in the back; the wound was fatal and he died at the scene. Police reported the shooting occurred around 12:50 a.m. and that his death was one of several shootings that weekend which left multiple people injured and others dead.

The investigation remains unsolved, and family members and neighbors have expressed frustration over the lack of progress. Anyone with information about what happened that night in North Lawndale is asked to come forward.