On November 22, 2016, in West Garfield Park, 20 year old Deshawn Adams was standing in the 3500 block of West Van Buren at about 5:45 p.m. when a dark car rolled up and someone inside opened fire. Neighbors and passersby found him collapsed on the sidewalk; he was struck multiple times in the head and chest and was pronounced dead at the scene at 6:08 p.m.

Police described the attack as a drive-by; early reports gave no more than the dark color of the vehicle and no description of a suspect. Detectives processed the scene, marked casings and canvassed for cameras, then opened a homicide investigation. Records list Adams’s residence in the 6700 block of South Eberhart, several miles from where he was killed. The shooting came amid a surge of gun violence in Chicago that year, when the city exceeded 700 homicides by late November.

If anyone saw the dark car on Van Buren that evening or has information about Deshawn’s killing, please share what is known.