Prince Johnson, 43, a Black man from Chicago, was found shot multiple times and pronounced dead at the scene around 9:40 p.m. on July 11, 2025, on the 13200 block of South Langley Avenue in the Riverdale community on the Far South Side. Area Two detectives opened a homicide investigation and early reports said no one was in custody that night.

Detectives later developed a theory that the shooting was a calculated ambush: prosecutors say Johnson was lured to the Altgeld Gardens area for a meeting and then executed. Charging documents link a phone number tied to an electronic monitoring agreement to the arranged encounter; the person tied to that number was on pretrial release and wearing an ankle monitor at the time.

Community memorial pages and violence-tracking databases recorded Johnson’s death on July 11, 2025, preserving his name among the city’s homicide victims as the case headed into court. If anyone knew Prince Johnson or has information about the circumstances of his death, please come forward.