Jack Haynes, 29, a Black/African American male, was shot and killed late Saturday morning on August 30, 2025, on Chicago’s West Side. He and another man, 32, were standing outside in the 500 block of North Sawyer Avenue when a dark SUV pulled up and a gunman stepped out and opened fire. Hit multiple times, Jack Haynes was rushed to Mt. Sinai Hospital, where he was pronounced dead; the second man was wounded and stabilized at the same hospital.
The Cook County medical examiner later identified the 29-year-old as Jack Haynes of Chicago.
The shooting unfolded in East Garfield Park, a stretch of blocks that has repeatedly absorbed sudden eruptions of gunfire, and the precise location was recorded at or near 523 North Sawyer Avenue. Investigators marked shell casings and canvassed for cameras and witnesses as word of the midday attack filtered across the neighborhood. On community trackers, his name joined the grim roll of victims lost that day in Chicago.
As evening fell, police said there were no arrests and no one in custody. Area 4 detectives took the lead, working a case that fit into a violent late-summer weekend that claimed multiple lives across the city. In public accounts afterward, authorities described the shooter as a suspect who exited the SUV and fired toward the two men before fleeing, leaving behind a scene of hurried first aid, flashing lights, and a family now forced to carry the story of a 29-year-old whose day had begun like any other.
