Kevin Nicol Bolivar-Quinto, 29, male, Hispanic/Latino, died after a pre-dawn shooting on August 17, 2025, in Chicago’s West Ridge neighborhood. He was sitting in a car in the 5800 block of North Mozart Street, near Stephen T. Mather High School, when a gunman walked up and opened fire. Officers and paramedics took Kevin Nicol Bolivar-Quinto to St. Francis Hospital in Evanston, where he was pronounced dead.
The morning was quiet enough that the parked Toyota Prius drew little notice until the burst of gunfire shattered it, leaving Kevin Nicol Bolivar-Quinto with multiple wounds just after 5 a.m. Patrol officers found him inside the vehicle around 5:06 a.m., the short block dead-ending into the school’s lot. The scene—Mozart north of Ardmore—sat only steps from the campus and its surrounding park.
City records and memorial listings later fixed the essentials in the public record: the victim’s full name and age, the date, and the location—West Ridge on Chicago’s North Side. Those entries, echoing police reports, sketched a life cut down in a matter of seconds and placed his death among the tally of Chicago homicides for 2025.
As of the latest reports, no arrests have been announced in the killing of Kevin Nicol Bolivar-Quinto, and detectives with the Chicago Police Department’s Area Three continue to investigate. There has been no public identification of a suspect or suspects.
