Abayomi Okanlawon was 16 when he was shot and killed on July 6, 2015, in Chicago’s South Shore neighborhood, just days after celebrating his sixteenth birthday. The family learned the news by phone; his sister said it happened shortly after the Fourth of July and described him as simply being in the wrong place at the wrong time.

The case received little media attention amid a high number of violent incidents in Chicago that summer. Abayomi’s death is presented as part of a broader pattern of gun violence affecting young people in the city and the particular strain felt by families in neighborhoods like South Shore.

Does anyone have memories of Abayomi or information about that July 6, 2015 shooting that could help his family?