Dejah Manning, 26, a Black/African American woman, stepped into the last evening of August 31, 2025, in Chicago�s Far South Side with an ordinary night ahead of her. By day�s end, her name would be added to the city�s toll of lives cut short. In Riverdale�s Altgeld Gardens community, outside a home along the 13200 block of South Ellis Avenue, the routine hum of a Sunday gave way to sirens and sprinting footsteps as neighbors called for help and police converged on the block. She was taken to the
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