Male, age 29, race/ethnicity not reported. On the evening of May 29, 2021, in Chicago's Logan Square neighborhood, Mike Alicea stood on the sidewalk in the 3700 block of West McLean Avenue when a vehicle pulled up and a gunman stepped out. Shots followed in the warm dusk; Alicea was struck in the arm and leg, and the street quickly filled with flashing lights and yellow tape as first responders converged. He was taken to Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead.
Reporters at the scene noted shell casings within the taped perimeter and neighbors peering from porches and windows, the block's quiet broken by the rush of an unfolding investigation.
Alicea, identified as being from Hanover Park, was 29 and male, and he died the same night from the gunfire he suffered on that residential stretch of McLean. The attack occurred just before 9 p.m., a detail echoed in subsequent summaries of a violent Memorial Day weekend across the city. The facts that emerged in the hours after the shooting were stark and spare: a car arrives, an assailant gets out, shots are fired, and the vehicle is gone.
Detectives canvassed the area as grief and anger simmered nearby, but there was no immediate arrest. Police confirmed no one was in custody in the aftermath, and later roundups of the weekend's violence repeated the same point: the shooter had not been caught, and the motive was not publicly known. Available public records and memorial listings reflecting on Alicea's death likewise add no suspect description beyond the brief account of the gunman stepping from a vehicle and opening fire.
