On a late-September day in 2008, 18-year-old African-American male Pierre Young was found in a narrow alley in Chicago’s Chatham neighborhood with multiple gunshot wounds and pronounced beyond saving. Local reports described the scene as a bullet-riddled body discovered in a service lane behind South Side homes, with squad cars and yellow tape marking an otherwise ordinary Tuesday in early fall.

Chatham is described as a community long known for Black middle-class life and well-kept blocks, yet by 2008 it was also confronting rising street violence. Young’s killing occurred as Chicago experienced a surge in homicides that year, and his name appears in memorials and databases alongside hundreds of other victims. Records and memorial sites note he was 18 and that the death was a homicide by gunfire; no arrests or detailed suspect descriptions are shown.

The case remains listed as unsolved, remembered in virtual memorials and in Crime Solvers Central’s database as an open investigation. If anyone knew Pierre Young, saw activity in the Chatham alley that day, or has information that could help, please share what is known with investigators.