Devell Alexander, a 32-year-old Black man, was killed in the early morning hours of April 26, 2019, on Chicago's West Side.
Around 2:05 a.m., police responded to reports of shots fired on the 5200 block of West Quincy Street in the Austin neighborhood.
Officers found the 32-year-old man and a 31-year-old woman, Shukeyina Godfrey, by a vehicle; he was pronounced dead at the scene while she was rushed to Mount Sinai Hospital and later pronounced dead.
Initial reports described the
victims as being discovered near a vehicle on the block; another account the same day said the pair were found inside a parked car after a ShotSpotter alert.
Authorities identified the 32-year-old man as Devell Alexander and noted he had ties to suburban Bolingbrook.
The 32-year-old man's death was recorded by national tracking sites that compile victims of gun violence.
Those listings confirm his name, age, gender, location, and date, and link the case to the broader set of shootings that day in Chicago.
They also connect his killing with that of the 31-year-old woman, reflecting that both were struck by gunfire in the same attack.
From the beginning, detectives opened a homicide investigation, but there were no immediate arrests.
Public updates in the years following continued to indicate a lack of resolution: a family petition seeking answers for the 31-year-old woman described the truck riddled with bullets and, as of late 2024, characterized the case as unsolved.
No suspect or suspects were publicly identified, and no charges were announced in connection with the killing of the 32-year-old man.
