African American male Daquan Mahmud Albright, age 17, was shot to death on August 19, 2018, in Chicago's West Englewood neighborhood.
Around 6:15 p.m., officers were called to the 7300 block of South Claremont Avenue, where they found the 17-year-old with multiple gunshot wounds.
He was pronounced dead at the scene, only blocks from where he lived, as Area Central detectives opened a homicide investigation.
The fatal shooting occurred during a violent late-summer weekend across the
city, and authorities noted his killing among the day's South Side homicides.
In the weeks that followed, no motive was publicly established and police did not announce arrests connected to the killing.
Contemporary roundups of the day's violence identified the 17-year-old by name and location but offered no suspect description or charges, and subsequent local coverage did not report a breakthrough in the case.
Beyond the brief police statements, portraits from memorial projects and remembrances captured a teenager on the cusp of senior year.
He loved music and video games, followed the Chicago Bulls and Bears, went to church on Sundays, and kept a close eye on fashion, ordinary fragments of a life interrupted before the first bell of the new school year.
