Black/African American female Tykina Ali, age 20, was killed on August 23, 2016, after gunfire struck the car in which she was riding in Chicago's South Lawndale/Little Village neighborhood. She was a passenger in a vehicle near the 2600 block of South Kedzie when someone in another vehicle opened fire; she was hit in the head. She was taken to West Suburban Medical Center in Oak Park and pronounced dead at 6:09 p.m. that evening. Records list her residence in the 1600 block of West Ogden.
In the days and months that followed, authorities reported no arrests. Public accounts from that period describe an open homicide investigation with no one in custody, and later remembrances from local outlets and memorial pages continued to mark the case as unresolved. Family tributes and community write-ups recalled the 20-year-old woman who loved to laugh while appealing for answers, underscoring the absence of identified suspects or announced charges.
