Gerard W. Mayo, 35, was fatally shot in Chicago’s Woodlawn neighborhood on August 27, 2017. The shooting occurred late in the evening and Mayo was pronounced dead at the scene from gunshot injuries.

His death was one of several gun-violence fatalities in Chicago that year, during a period when homicides and shootings rose in some south side neighborhoods. The case underscores how residents in economically disadvantaged, violence-prone communities like Woodlawn continued to bear the toll of recurring gun violence and its broader social effects.

If anyone knew Gerard Mayo or has information about the shooting in Woodlawn on August 27, 2017, please share what you know.