Cordea J. Leyva, 24, was shot and killed on October 17, 2010, around 3:30 p.m. while walking home from a store near 78th and Sawyer in the Ashburn neighborhood of Chicago. Witnesses said two males approached him from behind and fired several times. No suspects had been arrested or charged within a year of the killing.

Friends and family remembered Leyva as energetic and committed to his community; he worked at a Nissan dealership on Western Avenue. The family and local supporters held vigils, distributed flyers, and the parish of St. Sabina offered a $5,000 reward for information leading to identification and arrest of those responsible. Community reticence and a lack of cooperative witnesses were cited as obstacles in advancing the investigation.

Did anyone in the Ashburn area at the time see something that could help bring Cordea’s killers to justice?