Elijah House was 16 when he was killed on November 3, 2016, in South Chicago. The shooting happened inside a residence during an altercation involving his sister’s boyfriend, Darryl Bitedown Benton-Harris, then 19. Benton-Harris left the home, returned with a gun, shot Elijah, then shot Emoni, who was about four months pregnant and later died.

Their mother and another woman were critically injured but survived. Children who were present were not physically harmed but witnessed the violence. Benton-Harris was arrested after a pursuit and charged with two counts of first-degree murder for the deaths of Elijah and Emoni.

What can readers who knew Elijah or the family add about him or that night?