Black Male, age 28, Timothy “Lil Tim” Deandre Agnew stood with neighbors in the front yard of a home on Chicago's South Side when the quiet of an October evening ruptured into gunfire.
It was about 8:50 p.m. on October 17, 2016, in the 6700 block of South Winchester Avenue in West Englewood.
A group of men walked up and opened fire; in the chaos that followed, the Timothy ' Lil Tim' Deandre Agnew was struck in the head and pronounced dead at the scene at 9:18 p.m.
He lived a few miles away, in the 8100 block of South Maryland.
The blast of shots left four others wounded: a boy age 13, rushed to Comer Children's Hospital in critical condition, where later he was reported to be stabilized, a 23 year old man hit in the left leg, a 30 year old man shot in the leg and buttocks, and a 34 year old man struck in the right leg, hand, and shoulder.
Their conditions stabilized at Stroger Hospital and Christ Medical Center. The block itself wore the scars of earlier violence; the previous summer, people had been shot there on two separate nights, as if the street could not shake the memory of gunfire.
Detectives opened a homicide investigation, but the immediate aftermath offered little relief: no one was in custody as of early the next day.
Sources later described the shooting as tied to rival gang members whose tensions overlapped that stretch of Winchester, a reminder of how neighborhood lines can harden into deadly feuds.
Years on, public appeals continued to ask for information, a signal that no arrests had been publicly announced and the case still needed witnesses to come forward.
Timothy Agnew's killing unfolded during one of Chicago's grimmest years.
By the week of his death, the city had surpassed 600 homicides, a threshold that weighed heavily on families and entire blocks.
His name joined a ledger of loss that autumn, a 28 year old man whose life ended on a front lawn, under the sudden stutter of gunfire, while neighbors and a young teen beside him were pulled into the same violent burst.
