Black male, age 25. In the early hours of Tuesday, September 30, 2014, Shandel Adams was found on the sidewalk in Chicago's Humboldt Park neighborhood, in the 600 block of North Ridgeway Avenue.
Police responding around 3:20 a.m. discovered the 25 year old with a gunshot wound to the chest; he was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital and pronounced dead at 4:17 a.m.
Records connected him to the 5400 block of West Van Buren Street.
The killing unfolded on a quiet residential stretch before dawn, the kind of hour when footsteps echo and sirens carry, and by sunrise a life had been cut short.
Family described the 25 year old as a jokester who kept people laughing; his brother later said Shandel had been returning from a friend's home when the gunfire rang out and those friends came running to find him on the ground.
The scene, as remembered by loved ones, was intimate and sudden, friends rushing toward the sound, a brother grasping at details that would have to stand in for answers that didn't come.
Police at the time noted that he was a documented gang member, a label entered into the public record even as key facts about the shooter remained out of reach.
No arrests were announced in the immediate aftermath, and the coverage did not identify any suspects, leaving detectives to work a case with only the thinnest public leads.
The neighborhood listing, Humboldt Park, a shooting in the street, became the short marker of a longer grief that settled in after the squad cars rolled away.
