African American female Antonique Alexander, age 16, was shot in the head inside a home in Chicago's West Garfield Park on the evening of Friday, May 13, 2022, in the 4300 block of West Adams Street.
Officers found the 16-year-old girl lying face down and unresponsive around 6:50 p.m., and she was rushed to Mount Sinai Hospital in critical condition.
She lived about a block away, on Monroe Street.
She died the following Wednesday evening at Mount Sinai, according to the Cook County medical examiner's office.
An initial autopsy was reported as inconclusive pending further investigation.
As detectives processed the scene that night, a 19-year-old man walked into the home and told officers he had been there when the shooting happened.
He said he had removed the firearm used and would show police where he hid it.
Officers arrested the man, identified as Steven Jackson, and he was charged with obstructing justice and destroying evidence; a judge set his bail at $15,000.
Authorities did not announce murder charges stemming from the shooting in those early reports.
Police initially questioned a person of interest after the 16-year-old girl was transported to the hospital, but subsequent coverage focused on the obstruction case connected to the removal of the weapon rather than on an identified shooter.
Public records and news accounts available at the time did not report an arrest of a suspect for the shooting itself, only the obstruction case tied to the gun.
Her name and age were later listed among gun violence fatalities recorded online, underscoring how the 16-year-old girl's death was one of several tragedies that spring on Chicago's West Side.
But the narrative of her case in contemporaneous reports remained centered on the fatal injury in a neighborhood home, the hospital vigil that followed, and the limited arrest activity focused on the alleged effort to hide the gun, leaving unanswered who fired the shot that killed her.
