Do you know who shot Rashad outside his home? African American, age 26, Rashad A. Abdullah was shot late on a Friday morning near his Marquette Park home on Chicago's Southwest Side. At about 10 a.m. on April 24, 2015, he was standing outside in the 7000 block of South Talman Avenue when two people came up from behind and opened fire.
Neighbors later told authorities he lived on that same block. First responders rushed the 26 year old Rashad A.
Abdullah to Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, where he was pronounced dead at 11:10 a.m. that day.
The attack came without warning on a residential stretch where midmorning traffic mixed with the quiet of a late spring day. Police described the assailants only as two individuals who approached, fired, and fled, leaving little behind but spent casings and a rattled street. Officials did not publicly release detailed descriptions of the shooters in the immediate aftermath.
In the days following, authorities announced no arrests in the case. Later roundups of that weekend's violence and subsequent case listings continued to recount the same bare facts, two people approached, shots were fired, and Rashad A. Abdullah, 26, died at the hospital, without naming suspects or reporting charges tied to his killing. Available public reporting have not documented any arrests or identified suspects connected to his death.
Behind the brief police summaries was a young man whose life story was more than the moment of violence. Born October 11, 1988, in Chicago, he was remembered by family and friends for a love of cars and for pursuing automotive studies; tributes published after his death describe a free spirit with an easy smile, a son and father whose absence left a wide circle grieving.
