Ulysses Simmons was 14 when he was shot and killed near his home in the Cottage Grove area on Chicago’s South Side on June 16, 2008. He and friends had been riding bicycles; while they stopped at his house the bikes were stolen. Some friends later identified the people who took the bikes and confronted them, recovering one bike. Two days after that confrontation, witnesses say the assailants, upset at being identified, returned and shot Ulysses.

A friend, Michael Shepherd, witnessed the shooting and said they had not been able to recover all of the bikes before the situation turned deadly. Ulysses had just finished seventh grade and was preparing for summer. The death was one of several shootings that year involving young people in Chicago neighborhoods where disputes over possessions escalated to violence.

Does anyone have information about Ulysses, the incident, or the people involved?