Jamel Clayton was 19 when he was shot and killed on August 25, 2012, in Chicago’s North Lawndale neighborhood. The shooting happened on the 1300 block of South Independence Boulevard while he was walking; a shooter approached and fired multiple times. Jamel was taken to a hospital but died of his injuries.

His death came during a year of high gun violence in the city, and investigators opened a probe that, like many similar cases, struggled to produce quick answers, leaving family and the community grieving. If anyone was in North Lawndale that evening or has information about what happened on the 1300 block of South Independence Boulevard, please come forward.