Corey J. Holmes, a 44-year-old Chicago resident, died of gun violence on June 22, 2024, in Chicago.

Years earlier Holmes spent time at the Wayne County Jail in Michigan; he was 19 months into that stay when the COVID-19 pandemic began in May 2020. During the early pandemic inmates, including Holmes, staged a peaceful protest seeking information about COVID-19 risks and testing. Deputies responded in riot gear and physically restrained those involved. Holmes’s family was already grieving other COVID-19 losses, including his father and a young cousin, and his sister LaTonya Holmes publicly voiced concern about the jail’s handling of the outbreak.

If anyone in Chicago on June 22, 2024, witnessed the shooting or has information about Corey Holmes’s death, please come forward.