Reginald Edwards, 21, was killed in a drive-by shooting on July 3, 2025, in the South Deering neighborhood of Chicago. He was standing on the sidewalk in the 9900 block of South Bensley Avenue at about 1:20 p.m. when a vehicle pulled alongside and someone inside opened fire, striking him multiple times. He was taken to the University of Chicago Medical Center and pronounced dead at 1:55 p.m., the Cook County medical examiner’s office reported.

The shooting occurred on a residential stretch of the Far South Side during a holiday period that saw elevated gun violence. Chicago police said no arrests had been made immediately after the attack and did not provide a suspect description. Online memorial pages were later used by mourners to mark Edwards’s death and record the basic details of the incident.

Did anyone in the South Deering area see a vehicle or persons near the 9900 block of South Bensley Avenue around 1:20 p.m. on July 3?