On the evening of July 4, 2017, 56-year-old Tyrone Burdine was fatally shot while celebrating with neighbors in the Austin neighborhood of Chicago. As he stood in front of a home on the 1600 block of North Major Avenue at about 8:15 p.m., gunfire erupted from a passing vehicle. A bullet struck Burdine in the head; he was taken to Loyola University Medical Center in Maywood and died shortly after midnight on July 5.

Prosecutors say the shooting began with an earlier dispute over a stolen bicycle. Devin Sanders, 17, and his associate Darius Coakley, 18, allegedly pursued a 19-year-old and his 12-year-old cousin in a Volkswagen after confronting the older man at a White Castle. Sanders is accused of leaning out of the passenger window and opening fire; the 19-year-old was shot in the back while Burdine, an uninvolved bystander, was killed. Both Sanders and Coakley were arrested and charged with first-degree murder and attempted murder and were held without bond.

Burdine’s death was one of 15 fatal shootings during a Fourth of July weekend that saw 102 people shot across the city. If anyone saw the shooting or has information about that night in the 1600 block of North Major Avenue, please come forward.