Leontrey Taylor, 30, was fatally shot in the early hours of July 5, 2024, around 2 a.m. in the 700 block of South Cicero Avenue in Chicago’s Austin neighborhood. His death came during a sharp rise in gun violence over the July 4th holiday weekend, when the city recorded 19 people killed and 86 others wounded in various shootings.

Multiple mass shootings were reported during that period; Taylor’s killing was one of several violent incidents contributing to the weekend’s heavy toll. Taylor is included in the city’s gun violence totals and is remembered through memorials and a profile on the National Gun Violence Memorial.

Did anyone in the Austin neighborhood see or hear anything that night?