James Thomas was a 19-year-old Black male who was fatally shot in Chicago on June 14, 2011. His death occurred during a year when the city recorded 433 homicides, of which 83.4% were shootings and 75.3% of victims were Black males. The Chicago Police Department’s 2011 Murder Analysis Report notes 118 homicides tied to street gang altercations and identifies 196 victims aged 17 to 25, underscoring the concentration of violence among young Black men that year.

Did anyone in Chicago at the time have information about James Thomas’s life or the neighborhood where he was shot?