James McKnight, 44, was fatally shot in the early hours of March 16, 2025, inside an apartment building in the 1300 block of North Hudson Avenue in Chicago’s Old Town neighborhood. Officers arrived about 2:30 a.m. and found him with a gunshot wound to the abdomen; CPR was given and he was taken to Northwestern Memorial Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 4:24 a.m.

Investigators initially had no one in custody, but later arrested 33-year-old Breanna Gilliams, who lived on the same block; she has been charged with first-degree murder. A woman at the scene identifying herself as McKnight’s wife told officers a masked man entered their apartment and began shooting. Investigators later recovered a bullet and a single shell casing inside the apartment, and detectives are also reviewing a 911 call made minutes earlier that reported a heated argument and an apparent gunshot in a nearby unit.

Area 3 detectives continue to piece together the sequence of events and clarify how the 911 call and the physical evidence fit with witness statements. Does anyone in Old Town have information about the building on North Hudson Avenue or that night that could help investigators?