Joshua Correa, a 42-year-old Black man, was found dead on September 19, 2022, in an apartment in the 1100 block of Reading Drive in Montgomery, Illinois. It was early afternoon when police and emergency responders were called in—an urgent check that quickly turned grim as officers discovered him unresponsive inside the residence. Coroner’s deputies arrived and pronounced him dead at the scene, while investigators moved in to secure the area and begin piecing together what had happened.
At first, authorities described the death as suspicious and kept his identity private until next-of-kin notification could be completed. In those first hours, police emphasized that there was no immediate threat to the public, even as the uncertainty hung over the neighborhood. Detectives began working the case with the Kendall County Major Crimes Task Force, treating the apartment and its surroundings as a potential crime scene rather than a medical emergency.
Within a week, investigators publicly confirmed what the evidence was pointing to: the case was being handled as a homicide, with his death attributed to apparent gunshot wounds. That update shifted the tone from guarded concern to a clear acknowledgment that someone had taken his life, and that the answers would have to come through careful reconstruction—who had been near the building, who had entered or left, and what might have been captured by cameras in the hours leading up to the 1:18 p.m. response.
Investigators specifically asked the public for help locating surveillance video or witness information from the stretch of time that morning through early afternoon—roughly 8:00 a.m. to 1:15 p.m.—suggesting they were trying to track movements, vehicles, or encounters that could explain how the shooting unfolded. Even as that request went out, police said they could not provide further details about what led up to the killing, leaving only the outline of the day: the call for help, the discovery inside the apartment, and the rapid escalation into a major-crimes investigation.
Publicly available reports from that period do not identify any named suspect, nor do they describe any arrest or criminal charges connected to his death. Records that catalog gun-violence incidents list the event as a fatal shooting in Montgomery on that date, but they likewise do not supply suspect information. As far as those sources show, the case remained defined by what investigators knew—but could not yet say—while the search for whoever was responsible continued beyond the initial announcements.
