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Derrick Jones was 21 when he was shot and killed in Chicago on December 23, 2016. He was murdered alongside Stephen Tucker in a violent incident tied to gang activity attributed to the Wicked Town faction of the Traveling Vice Lords. Authorities and federal investigators connected the killing to internal gang rivalries and efforts to assert dominance amid that faction’s drug-dealing operations in the Austin neighborhood.

The Wicked Town faction was implicated in numerous violent crimes during this period, with federal indictments alleging nearly 40 murders or attempted murders alongside armed robberies, assaults, and large-scale drug and gun seizures.

Did anyone who knew Derrick or who was in Austin in late 2016 see or hear anything that could help explain what happened that night?