Joseph Graves was 19 and a student at Northern Illinois University when he was shot and killed on December 11, 2015. He was found unresponsive inside an SUV in the Washington Heights neighborhood of Chicago with a gunshot wound to the back of his head. The shooting happened around 10:30 p.m. while Graves was home for the holidays to spend time with family and friends.

His death added to a string of violent incidents in the city at that time and devastated the NIU community. Police were still searching for his killer in the days after the shooting. If anyone was in Washington Heights on the evening of December 11, 2015, or has information about who was responsible, please come forward to investigators.