Courtney Macon

Courtney Macon was a 24-year-old Black man from Chicago’s Jackson Park Highlands neighborhood. A father, he was remembered on a memorial page as a loving and giving person.

On the evening of Saturday, April 3, 2021, Macon was in the West Town neighborhood. Around 7:25 p.m., as he was in an alley in the 2000 block of West Maypole Avenue, someone approached him and shot him.

Macon was struck in the abdomen and rushed to Stroger Hospital in critical condition. He fought for his life for several hours but ultimately succumbed to his injuries in the early morning of Sunday, April 4, 2021. The Cook County medical examiner’s office officially pronounced him dead at 2:19 a.m. His death was one of seven homicides that occurred as a result of gun violence in Chicago over that Easter weekend.

Chicago police began an investigation into the shooting. According to initial reports from April 2021, authorities had not publicly identified a suspect, and no arrests had been made. The case remains unsolved.