On October 18, 2024, Randy Joiner, 45, was fatally shot in the parking lot of the McDonald’s at 1004 W. Wilson Avenue in Chicago’s Uptown neighborhood. The attack occurred about 3:45 p.m. while Joiner sat in his parked car. Two people wearing hooded sweatshirts approached; one produced a gun and fired into the vehicle, striking Joiner in the head. He was taken to Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center in critical condition and was pronounced dead roughly 90 minutes later.

Joiner had recently moved back to Chicago from Austin, Texas, according to a memorial page. Area 3 detectives are investigating, and no arrests have been reported. The shooting was at least the neighborhood’s second homicide and the 14th shooting in Uptown this year, a detail often cited in discussions about local violence.

If anyone saw the incident at the McDonald’s parking lot or has information about the two people in hooded sweatshirts, please share what is known.