On June 18, 2015, Lynell L. Simmons, a 30-year-old man, was fatally shot in the Chatham neighborhood of Chicago. The shooting happened in the afternoon, about 3:10 PM, on the 7900 block of South Langley. A maroon Ford Astro van pulled up, two men got out and opened fire. Simmons suffered a gunshot wound to the abdomen and was taken to Stroger Hospital, where he was pronounced dead later that afternoon.

Chatham has long struggled with violence and crime, and this killing is one of many similar shootings in the area amid the city’s high homicide totals that year. If anyone saw what happened on South Langley that afternoon or has information about the maroon Ford Astro van, please share what is known with authorities.