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Odeal G. Curley, 40, a Black woman, was shot dead outside a private party bus in Fuller Park, Chicago, in the early hours of October 18, 2025. The bus had stopped near the 5400 block of South Shields Avenue about 12:40 a.m. when a passenger still seated inside drew a gun and fired. Curley was struck in the thigh, treated by paramedics at the scene, and taken to the University of Chicago Medical Center, where she was pronounced dead soon after.

Witnesses told police a dispute had erupted on the bus and that Curley stepped off and became the target as tempers flared; some reports described her as trying to intervene in a fight when she was shot. Detectives recovered shell casings at West 54th Place and South Shields and searched for surveillance video while friends and the bus company tried to piece together what happened. Within days authorities arrested 35-year-old Demar King of Calumet City and charged him with first-degree murder, alleging he fired the fatal shot and fled before being taken into custody following a police pursuit.

Did anyone on that party bus or in the neighborhood see something that could fill gaps in the timeline?