Shambreya Barfield was a 21-year-old woman from Chicago who was killed on July 3, 2014, on the city’s South Side. Her death was one of many firearm-related homicides that year as Chicago struggled with elevated violence in parts of the South and West Sides. Public health data from the period show neighborhoods such as Englewood, Roseland, and South Shore experiencing particularly high rates of violent death.

The case is presented against a broader context of entrenched problems cited as contributing factors — poverty, gang activity, and limited access to resources and social services — that continued to affect young people across those communities in 2014. If anyone knew Shambreya, witnessed events from July 3, 2014, or has information about her killing, please come forward.