On August 22, 2023, 25-year-old Darius Walker was fatally shot during a mass shooting on the 1500 block of South Trumbull Avenue in Chicago’s North Lawndale neighborhood. The attack also wounded a 15-year-old boy, a 27-year-old woman, and a 38-year-old man. Those present had gathered for a memorial for another person who had been fatally shot the day before one block away.

The firearm used, a Taurus pistol, had been stolen from a vehicle on the same street about an hour before the shooting. That theft was one of roughly 700 guns taken during about 35,000 car break-ins in Chicago in 2023, and Walker was one of eight Chicagoans killed that year with stolen guns. The case highlights a pattern of shootings involving firearms obtained through theft.

If anyone knew Darius Walker or was at the memorial that night, can you share what you remember or any information that could help?