Keith Dixon was 25 when he was shot and killed on July 10, 2015, in Chicago, Illinois. The shooting occurred on the West Side, a part of the city described as plagued by ongoing violence tied to gang activity and the proliferation of illegal firearms.

Dixon’s death occurred during 2015, a year the city experienced a rise in gun violence: homicides increased to 468 from 416 the prior year, and non-fatal shootings topped 2,900.

This homicide is one among many young lives lost in Chicago during that period and is cited as emblematic of systemic problems that community leaders and law enforcement struggled to reverse.