Jacoby Blake, 22, was fatally shot on December 9, 2008, in the stairwell of a building in Chicago’s Near North Side neighborhood.

Blake’s death is described as part of a broader surge of violence across Chicago that year, in neighborhoods struggling with disputes and gang-related activity. Authorities recorded the shooting as an ongoing investigation, and it remains one of several homicides from that period that added to community grief and frustration.

If anyone has information about Jacoby Blake, his movements that night, or the stairwell where he was shot, please come forward to help investigators.