Louis A. Wilson was 26 when he was shot and killed on July 30, 2010, in Chicago, Illinois. The shooting happened on the city’s South Side during a period when gun violence and homicide rates were rising, and his name appears in Chicago’s homicide records for that year.

Wilson’s death is recorded as one of many in datasets maintained by the Chicago Police Department that illustrate the scale of gun violence affecting neighborhoods and families across the city. The brief reports focus on the fact of the killing and its contribution to the broader pattern of homicides in Chicago at the time.

If anyone knew Louis Wilson or has information about the July 30, 2010, shooting, please share what you know.