On the evening of August 19, 2001, 37-year-old Chicago Police Patrolman Eric Dwayne Lee was shot and killed in an alley on the 6300 block of South Carpenter Street in Englewood. Lee and his partner, Patrolman Andre Green, had been assisting narcotics officers when they encountered a group assaulting a man. As the officers identified themselves, one of the assailants, identified as 26-year-old Aloysius Oliver, drew a .357 caliber Ruger GP-100 revolver and fled; Oliver then waited behind a garage and fired two shots, striking Officer Lee in the right temple. Lee was taken to Christ Hospital and died shortly after arrival.

Oliver was captured soon afterward and the stolen revolver was recovered at the scene. He was charged with first-degree murder; Tommie Leach was charged with aggravated assault. Lee, born October 11, 1963, was a nine-year veteran of the department, a U.S. Marine Corps veteran, and is survived by his wife Shawn, their daughter Erica, his parents and siblings. His star was retired and placed in the Superintendent’s Honored Star Case at Chicago Police Headquarters.

Did anyone in Englewood who knew these men or witnessed that alleyway confrontation come forward with information at the time?