Dejah Manning, 26, was shot and later died after an argument outside a home on the 13200 block of South Ellis Avenue in Riverdale’s Altgeld Gardens community on the evening of August 31, 2025. Neighbors reported hearing shouts and gunfire around 7:28–7:30 p.m.; she was taken to the University of Chicago Medical Center, where doctors could not save her.

Chicago police say the shooting occurred during a dispute between people who knew each other and that another woman produced a handgun and fired, striking Manning in the chest. Detectives collected shell casings at the scene. The next day, police announced an arrest: Diamond Steward, 31, was taken into custody on Sept. 1 in the 700 block of East 111th Street and charged with first-degree murder. Court proceedings were scheduled to follow.

Dejah Manning has been remembered in community posts and remembrances as the date August 31, 2025, was added to the city’s toll of lives lost to gun violence. If anyone saw the confrontation that evening or has information about what led up to it, please share what is known with investigators.