Lafayette D. Montgomery, 37, of Chicago, Illinois, was killed on December 5, 2016. His death is listed among the city’s 2016 homicide victims and is cited by local reporting documenting that year’s sharp increase in fatal violence.

The account places Montgomery’s killing within a broader pattern of gun-related homicides, gang violence, and community unrest that drove Chicago’s rising homicide count in 2016.

If anyone knew Lafayette, his routines, or has information about what happened on December 5, 2016, please come forward.