On the night of January 23, 2025, 35-year-old Tyrone Booker was fatally shot while driving in the 1200 block of South Sawyer Avenue in Chicago’s North Lawndale neighborhood. An unidentified person on foot opened fire, striking Booker in the head and torso. Booker crashed into two parked cars while trying to escape and was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital, where he was pronounced dead shortly after midnight.

Booker lived on the same block where the shooting occurred. Authorities say the attack was deliberate; Area Four detectives are investigating but have not publicly identified any suspects and no arrests have been announced. The community has been shaken and investigators are asking anyone with information to come forward.

If anyone saw activity in the 1200 block of South Sawyer Avenue on the night of January 23, 2025, or has information about who might have carried out this attack, please share what is known with investigators.