Treyvon M. Short was a 17-year-old who was shot to death in the Humboldt Park neighborhood of Chicago on the night of March 1, 2024. Officers responding to a report of shots fired at about 10:20 p.m. at a residence in the 3600 block of West Franklin Boulevard found Short unresponsive with several gunshot wounds to the chest and one to the head. He was pronounced dead at the scene and later identified by the Cook County Medical Examiner’s Office.

Area Four detectives of the Chicago Police Department are investigating. No one was reported in custody in connection with the shooting. Humboldt Park is noted in this account as a high-crime area; in 2021 it ranked 11th out of 77 community areas in Chicago for violent crime.

If anyone has information about Treyvon Short or the events at the 3600 block of West Franklin Boulevard that night, please come forward to investigators.