Steven Nelson was 16 when he was killed in Chicago on August 2, 2008. His death appears in the Chicago Police Department’s homicide records for that year, which documented a sharp rise in violent crime and an especially heavy toll on the city’s youth.

To protect privacy, the department recorded homicides at the block level, and the available entry for Nelson does not include a precise location or many incident details.

Does anyone who lived in Chicago at the time remember anything about Nelson or the neighborhood circumstances surrounding his death?