In the early hours of November 3, 2019, a 42-year-old African American male, Corey “Corkey/Cokey” Holmes, was found on the sidewalk in the 600 block of East 75th Street in Chicago's Park Manor neighborhood with a gunshot wound to the abdomen.
He was taken to the University of Chicago Medical Center, where he died several hours later.
He lived in the Chatham neighborhood on Chicago's South Side, a detail that sketched the short distance between home and the place where the
night turned fatal for the 42-year-old male victim.
News accounts and memorial listings identify him as Corey Holmes, sometimes written as “Corey Holmes” or “Corey Holmes,” a 42-year-old African American male whose death date is recorded as November 3, 2019.
Each retelling fixes the same essentials: the South Side location, the early-morning hour, and the single wound that ended the life of the 42-year-old male victim, Corey 'Corkey/Cokey' James Holmes.
Detectives opened a homicide investigation, but in the immediate aftermath police said witnesses refused to cooperate, leaving the circumstances around the killing of Corey Holmes unclear.
No one was in custody in the case at that time, and reports did not include any suspect description or arrests connected to the shooting of Corey 'Corkey/Cokey' James Holmes.
