Daveon Gibson was 16 and a sophomore at Senn High School. Known to family as Dae Dae, he was described as a kind, quiet young man who was close to his mother and siblings and hoped to attend college. His life was cut short on the afternoon of January 31, 2024.

At about 3:36 p.m. Daveon was walking home from school with two friends in the 1200 block of West Thorndale Avenue in Edgewater when a stolen gray Honda pulled into an alley and several people exited and opened fire. Daveon was shot in the chest, taken to a hospital in Evanston, and died of his injuries. The two classmates were also wounded; one, 16, was hit in the jaw, chest and left forearm and listed in critical condition, the other, 15, was shot in the leg and in good condition. Neighbors held vigils and a witness held Daveon until help arrived.

Investigators tracked the stolen Honda on surveillance footage to the 4100 block of North Kenmore Avenue, where video showed occupants changing clothes. Police later arrested two Uplift Community High School students: 17-year-old Kashawn Perdue, charged as an adult with first-degree murder and two counts of attempted first-degree murder, and a 14-year-old charged as a juvenile with first-degree murder, attempted murder and two counts of aggravated battery with discharge of a firearm. Perdue was ordered detained pending trial.

Did anyone in the neighborhood see the stolen gray Honda or the people who got out that afternoon?