Seven-year-old Dantrell Davis was killed on October 13, 1992, in Chicago’s Cabrini-Green housing project. He was walking to Jenner Elementary School with his mother, Annette Freeman, when a bullet fired from a 10th-floor apartment struck him; he was pronounced dead at Children’s Memorial Hospital. The shot was fired by Anthony Garrett, a member of a local street gang, who was aiming at a rival and later signed a confession saying he had intended to kill rival gang members but accidentally hit Dantrell.

Garrett was arrested hours after the shooting, indicted on first-degree murder charges on November 5, 1992, and sentenced to 100 years in prison on March 8, 1994. The killing drew national attention to violence in the projects, helped prompt a three-year gang truce in Cabrini-Green, and led to an honorary renaming of the block where Dantrell was killed as Dantrell Davis Way on March 5, 1993. Much of the housing complex, including Dantrell’s home and the building where the shot was fired, was later demolished.