Cedrick Hicks, a 33-year-old male, Black / African American, was shot and killed in the early morning hours of August 31, 2025, inside a home on the 6300 block of South Elizabeth Street in Chicago’s Englewood neighborhood. Police said the shooting happened around 2:50 a.m. during an argument with someone he knew, and Cedrick Hicks, 33, was pronounced dead at the scene from a gunshot wound to the head.
The killing of Cedrick Hicks, 33-year-old male, drew attention as part of a violent Labor Day weekend across the city; authorities noted at the time that no one was in custody in connection with his death. In subsequent updates listing Chicago homicide victims and memorial pages, his case remained recorded with the same core details—date, location in Englewood, and his identity as Cedrick Hicks, age 33 male—without any report of an arrest.
As of the latest publicly available reports, police had not announced charges, and no suspects had been named or arrested in the killing of Cedrick Hicks, 33-year-old male, in that Englewood home. Investigators initially described the encounter as an argument between acquaintances, a dispute that turned fatal in minutes, leaving family and neighbors to wake to tape across the doorway and a home gone suddenly quiet.
