Malik K. Bingham was 20 when he was fatally shot in Chicago’s Grand Crossing neighborhood on February 22, 2017. He was targeted while in the area and became one of several young victims in neighborhoods on the South and West Sides that experienced a surge in firearm homicides between 2013 and 2017.

Public health data highlight Grand Crossing, Englewood, and Austin as concentrated centers for adolescent firearm homicides during that period, with rates for young Black males in Chicago well above national averages. Community groups and health systems have since emphasized prevention, youth opportunity programs, and community mobilization as responses to this pattern of violence.

If anyone knew Malik, was in Grand Crossing on February 22, 2017, or has information about this shooting, please come forward.