Mark A Higgins

On October 31, 2016, Mark A. Higgins, a 28-year-old resident of Chicago, Illinois, was fatally shot in what was a particularly violent year for the city. Higgins' death took place during a Halloween night when violence in the city was escalating significantly. He was one of the 764 homicide victims in Chicago that year, a period marked by a dramatic increase in shootings and violent incidents across the city's neighborhoods.

The year 2016 saw an overall spike in homicides, attributed to ...