Eric L. Vaughn, 28, was fatally shot on January 31, 2025, while standing on a sidewalk in the 8500 block of South Morgan Street in the Auburn Gresham neighborhood of Chicago. Four people exited a vehicle and opened fire; Vaughn suffered multiple gunshot wounds and was pronounced dead at the scene. He lived on the same block where the shooting occurred.

Investigators recovered 52 shell casings at the scene and a neighbor later turned in another 18 casings found in nearby bushes. A witness recorded part of the attack, showing three armed men near Vaughn’s body, and one assailant reportedly fired additional rounds after Vaughn had collapsed. The suspects’ stolen silver Nissan Maxima was found burning about 30 minutes later in Dixmoor.

Federal officials said Vaughn had attended a routine status hearing at the Leighton Criminal Courthouse earlier that day and was on electronic monitoring for a machine gun possession case. Authorities arrested Marquez Smoke Robinson on an unrelated burglary matter, executed a search warrant at his home and recovered a gray hooded sweatsuit that matched clothing seen on one of the shooters; Robinson has not been formally charged in Vaughn’s murder. Area 2 detectives are continuing to examine video, phone location data and license plate reader records.

Did anyone in the Auburn Gresham area see activity near the courthouse or on South Morgan Street that afternoon?