Antonio Vergara, 48, was fatally shot on September 21, 2024, while in a yard in the 100 block of North Lawler Avenue in Chicago. The shooter fired and fled the scene before police arrived. No suspect identification or arrest has been reported in this case.

Vergara’s death was one of at least five fatal shootings during a violent weekend in Chicago that saw at least 33 people shot. Other fatal incidents that weekend occurred near 55th and Spaulding, near 24th and Trumbull, and in the 5700-block of South Prairie Avenue in Washington Park; a shooting from a stopped Jeep at a Little Village prayer vigil also left one person dead and seven wounded. Through September 22, 2024, Chicago had recorded 416 homicides for the year.

If anyone saw activity in the 100 block of North Lawler Avenue on September 21 or has information about this shooting, please share what is known.