Carlos Cortez, aged 22, was fatally shot on September 9, 2017, in Chicago, Illinois. The incident occurred in the evening hours, and the location was recorded as the South Lawndale neighborhood on Chicago's West Side. Cortez’s homicide was part of a troubling wave of violence that swept through Chicago in 2017, which was a year characterized by a significant number of gun-related deaths despite some decrease from previous years.
The circumstances surrounding Cortez's death point to an
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