On August 12, 2014, Julio Perkins, a 30-year-old man, was shot and killed in Chicago, Illinois. His death was recorded in Chicago Police Department homicide statistics and appears in the Chicago Data Portal and the Sun-Times homicide database.

Perkins’s killing occurred amid 2014’s uneven landscape of violence: overall homicide numbers that year showed some improvement citywide, but particular neighborhoods continued to suffer concentrated spikes in shootings and homicides. The circumstances of his death reflect the broader challenges cited for those areas, including gang activity, easy access to firearms, and economic hardship.

If anyone knew Julio, has information about the August 12, 2014 shooting, or remembers what was happening in that neighborhood at the time, please share what you know.