David Ford, 35, was fatally shot on August 24, 1992, during an attempted armed robbery in Chicago’s Chatham neighborhood. His killing was later attributed to Ralph Harris, a serial offender active on the South Side whose spree from 1992 to 1995 included multiple murders, sexual assaults, and armed robberies affecting Chatham and Avalon Park residents.

Ralph Harris was arrested on August 29, 1995, and charged with six murders, including Ford’s. Prosecutors relied on DNA analysis, eyewitness testimony, and Harris’s confessions. In 1999 Harris was convicted of multiple offenses, including the murder and attempted armed robbery of David Ford, and received a death sentence that was later commuted to life imprisonment. Ford’s death was one of the crimes that heightened fear and public-safety concerns on the South Side.

If anyone knew David Ford or has information about the August 1992 shooting in Chatham, please share what you remember.