Jeffrey Hicks, 53, Black/African American, was shot and killed on July 12, 2025, after an argument outside a building in Chicago’s Austin neighborhood. The confrontation took place in the 5600 block of West Division Street; prosecutors say surveillance video shows a brief verbal dispute, the younger man walking away, then returning about twenty minutes later. A second scuffle broke out at the building entrance and spilled onto the sidewalk. According to prosecutors, the younger man ran away, stopped, then turned and sprinted back toward Hicks, drew a handgun and fired one round into Hicks’s chest.

Hicks collapsed and was taken to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead. Witnesses and footage were described as showing Hicks unarmed. Two days after the shooting police stopped a car carrying the alleged shooter, who provided a false name but was identified, admitted to the shooting after being advised of his rights, and pointed himself out on the surveillance video while claiming self-defense. Prosecutors charged 20-year-old Donnell Wyatt with first-degree murder; no other suspects have been publicly identified.

Does anyone have information about that night on West Division Street or saw the events leading up to the shooting?