Seventeen-year-old Mokece Brown was shot and killed in Chicago on March 27, 2011. The killing came during a year when the city saw a sharp rise in gun-related deaths, with many victims and suspects clustered among young people aged roughly 17 to 25.

Brown’s death fits a broader pattern described for 2011: homicides concentrated in public spaces and disproportionately affecting African American and Hispanic neighborhoods struggling with disinvestment, limited opportunities, and fraught relations with police. Reports from that period link such incidents to street-level conflicts and the wider problem of youth violence in several Chicago communities.

Anyone who remembers Mokece or has information about the shooting is asked to come forward.