On January 6, 2012, 44-year-old Nigerian landlord Olufemi Abdulai was shot and killed while collecting rent on the 4400 block of West Monroe Street. Neighbors described a man in a steel-gray hoodie with his face covered moving away from Abdulai’s dark foreign car and heading into a nearby gangway; another witness saw a masked man emerge from an alley, approach Abdulai’s BMW, tussle with him and then fire shots that struck Abdulai as he fell into the driver’s seat. A bystander later told police the assailant patted Abdulai down, pointed a black revolver and fired five times before fleeing through the gangway.

Officers on plainclothes patrol encountered Desmond Young hours later; he ran, discarded a blue-steel revolver and was detained. Prosecutors presented witness testimony, recorded calls, and gunshot residue testing on jeans; a jury convicted Young of first-degree murder and armed robbery in 2018 and he received a lengthy prison term. Abdulai’s wife spoke publicly about the loss, saying she had waited for a call that never came.

Did anyone in the neighborhood have information about that day or remember seeing a dark foreign car on Monroe around noon?