Shandel Adams was 25 when he was found with a gunshot wound to the chest on the sidewalk in Chicago’s Humboldt Park neighborhood in the early hours of Tuesday, September 30, 2014. Police responded about 3:20 a.m.; he was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital and pronounced dead at 4:17 a.m. Records connected him to the 5400 block of West Van Buren Street.

Family remembered Adams as a jokester; his brother said Shandel had been returning from a friend’s home when gunfire rang out and friends ran to find him on the ground. Police noted he was a documented gang member, but coverage at the time did not identify any suspects and no arrests were announced in the immediate aftermath.

Who in Humboldt Park that night might have seen or heard something that could help bring answers to his family?