Rene Arredondo, 21, was fatally shot on January 13, 2015, on the 4200 block of South Rockwell Street in Chicago’s Brighton Park neighborhood. The shooting happened around 5 p.m.; Arredondo sustained a gunshot wound to the head and was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital, where he was later pronounced dead. Another person was wounded in the same incident but survived. The Chicago Police Department classifies Arredondo’s death as a homicide and includes it in the city’s murder dataset.

The case underscores the ongoing challenges with gun violence in parts of the city and the limits of interventions tried during that period. Anyone with information about what happened on January 13, 2015, on South Rockwell Street is asked to come forward.