Black male Charles Alexander, 22, was killed on September 9, 2021, after he was shot while seated in a parked car on Chicago's South Side.
Around 1:45 p.m., someone walked up to the vehicle in the 600 block of East 90th Place and fired into the car, striking him in the head.
He was transported to the University of Chicago Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead, and the Cook County medical examiner identified him as Charles Alexander, age 22.
Reports located the scene in the Burnside community area; another outlet described it as the Chatham neighborhood along the same block.
Police said the shooter fled west in a white Dodge Charger, and Area Two detectives opened the homicide investigation.
No description beyond the fleeing vehicle was released in the initial alerts, and authorities did not announce an arrest at that time.
Public records and memorial pages from that day and the weeks that followed preserved only the sparse contours of the case: a 22-year-old whose name, age, and date of death were added to citywide victim lists and remembrance pages, with no subsequent public notice of suspects taken into custody for this particular killing.
This absence of follow-up coverage appears across the primary daily report and secondary aggregators that track Chicago homicides.
In the months and years since, news databases and police releases show many unrelated South Side shootings, including later incidents on nearby blocks, but no official release tying an arrest to the September 9, 2021 killing of Charles Alexander, 22.
This synopsis reflects the details publicly reported the day of the homicide and the lack of any later arrest announcement specific to this case in accessible archives.
