Black male Rahsaan Emil Adams, age 29, was discovered on the night of November 2, 2017, in Chicago's Roseland neighborhood, slumped in the driver's seat of a parked car on the 11200 block of South Perry.
He had been shot multiple times shortly after 10 p.m., the block quieting around flashing lights as officers and detectives marked the pavement and the car's shattered glass fragments with evidence placards.
Paramedics rushed the 29 year old to Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, where he was pronounced dead at 10:52 p.m.
He was a West Englewood resident, a short drive from where his final moments unfolded, and the official confirmation of his death traveled quickly from the Medical Examiner's at the morgue to the Police station and then to newsrooms that recorded the bare facts and the late hour.
Detectives opened a homicide investigation that night, but no one was in custody in the immediate aftermath, and early coverage named no suspect or motive.
In the days that followed, online tributes and memorial pages fixed the date November 2, 2017, and the place, Chicago, while cemetery records placed him at rest in Mount Hope Cemetery, a final, quiet address entered into the rolls beneath his full name and his years.
Later memorial listings continued to note his killing while offering no public indication of an arrest, a silence that often settles over unsolved cases as the paper trail thins and grief endures.
As of September of 2025, there still have been no arrests made, nor suspects questioned in the murder of Rahsaan Emil Adams on November 2, 2017.
