Tzaddi Cox, 35, was killed just after midnight on May 3, 2025, in Chicago’s Austin neighborhood. Officers found him around 12:15 a.m. on the ground near the mouth of an alley in the 1200 block of North Massasoit Avenue with two gunshot wounds to the chest; he was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital and pronounced dead. A gun was recovered at the scene and no one was initially in custody.

Prosecutors say Cox had stepped out to pick up carryout for his family when two men followed him down Division Street and blocked him by an alley near 1211 North Massasoit. According to that account, one man held Cox at gunpoint while the other searched his pockets. Prosecutors say Cox, who was legally carrying a handgun, fired one shot in self-defense and was then struck twice by the armed robber’s return fire. One of the suspects was also wounded in the hand; both fled in a red Nissan.

In later proceedings, 19-year-old Jaden Pointer Jr. was charged in connection with the killing; prosecutors allege he helped plan and carry out the robbery but was not the shooter.

Did anyone in the Austin neighborhood see the red Nissan or the men near Division Street that night?