Cordell Banks, 57, was fatally shot on Chicago’s South Side and died of his wounds on September 28, 2008. He was found at the scene with gunshot injuries and succumbed soon after. The case is recorded within the Chicago Police Department’s 2008 homicide statistics.

Banks’ death occurred during a year when the city saw a high number of gun-related homicides, concentrated in South and West Side neighborhoods facing poverty, unemployment, and cycles of retaliation. Those broader social and economic problems were cited as factors that complicated efforts to reduce violence and to obtain cooperation from witnesses.

Does anyone have information about Cordell Banks, his life in Chicago, or the circumstances of that shooting?