In the early morning hours of February 11, 2026, 22-year-old Darwin Tirado was shot and killed during an attempted carjacking in Chicago’s Northalsted neighborhood. The attack happened just before 4 a.m. in the 700 block of West Waveland Avenue while Tirado and a companion sat in a Hyundai Sonata after leaving a nearby bar. Two armed individuals demanded the vehicle and personal belongings; during the robbery one assailant opened fire, striking Tirado in the chest and back. His companion, a 38-year-old man, was not physically harmed. Tirado was taken to Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center, where he died.

Tirado worked at Chef Art Smith’s Navy Pier restaurant, Reunion, and was a student at City Colleges of Chicago. The stolen Hyundai was later linked to another fatal shooting that same morning in Bronzeville and to additional carjacking incidents, prompting a wider investigation.

Did anyone who knew Darwin or who was in Northalsted that night see the Hyundai or the suspects leaving the area?