Eddie Brooks was 16 when he was fatally shot on May 10, 2016, in Chicago’s Humboldt Park neighborhood. Brooks was standing on a porch when an unknown individual approached and began firing, striking him in the head. He was taken to a hospital and later pronounced dead.

The shooting occurred during a year of sharply increased violence in Chicago; 2016 saw 764 homicides citywide, a 58 percent rise from 2015, with about 90 percent of those homicides involving firearms. Humboldt Park was among the neighborhoods hit hard by the surge in gun violence that year, and Brooks was one of the young victims whose deaths underscored the city’s struggle to curb shootings.

Anyone with information about the porch shooting that killed Eddie Brooks is asked to come forward.