Demerio Jimenez, 42, was fatally shot in Chicago’s Humboldt Park neighborhood on the evening of September 8, 2013. He was pronounced dead at the scene from multiple gunshot wounds. The killing occurred during a year when the city saw a large number of homicides, many concentrated in neighborhoods wrestling with poverty, gang activity, and limited economic opportunities. Humboldt Park is named in reports as one of the areas frequently affected by that violence.

The case is another reminder of the limits of responses focused only on patrols and short-term interventions; community groups and officials at the time were pursuing both targeted policing and violence interruption programs, yet the underlying social and economic issues remained unresolved. Does anyone have information about Jimenez, his movements that night, or contacts in Humboldt Park who might shed light on what happened?