Christian Covarrubias, 25, was fatally shot on March 4, 2024, outside a bakery on 26th Street near Sawyer Avenue in Little Village, Chicago. The shooting happened in broad daylight and is described as part of a wave of violence affecting the neighborhood. In the days around his death other shootings injured a teenager and two men in nearby Brighton Park, prompting some business owners to close earlier out of safety concerns.

As of the Thursday following the shooting, Chicago Police had made no arrest in Covarrubias’s killing. The Little Village Community Council organized a peace march along 26th Street to protest the violence and to show community solidarity. Memorials and tributes have appeared for Covarrubias, and the National Gun Violence Memorial has acknowledged his death.

If anyone was in the area that day or has information about what happened outside the bakery on 26th Street, please come forward.