Malik L. McNeese was 16 when he was shot and killed on January 3, 2017, in the East Garfield Park neighborhood on Chicago’s West Side. The noon shooting on the 3400 block of West Fulton Boulevard began when an SUV pulled up and gunfire erupted; two teenagers, Malik and Stevie Jefferson, were struck. Both were transported to the hospital and succumbed to their injuries. A 65-year-old woman was also injured in the incident.

Malik was a 10th-grade student at Urban Prep Academy and was known to friends and family as a loving, outgoing young man with a warm sense of humor; he was nicknamed Harry. His mother has spoken of profound grief, and community members lit hundreds of candles in his memory. Malik’s death came amid a period of heightened violence in Chicago that affected neighborhoods like East Garfield Park and followed the killing of another Urban Prep student the same week.

If anyone knew Malik, witnessed the shooting, or has information about that noon attack on West Fulton Boulevard, please share what you know.