Just after midnight on April 20, 2013, in Chicago's Irving Park neighborhood, a 34-year-old male named Lucas A. Zimmerman was found unresponsive in the parking lot of a convenience store on the 3900 block of North Kimball Avenue.
Multiple gunshot wounds marked the 34-year-old male's final moments as squad cars and tape drew a perimeter around the cold asphalt.
Paramedics and officers converged on the scene, but Lucas A. Zimmerman could not be revived. He was pronounced dead at 12:25 a.m., and the block fell back into uneasy quiet.
Witnesses told police that the 34-year-old male victim had been shot moments earlier in a nearby alley off the 3300 block of West Irving Park Road.
In those last minutes, 34-year-old Zimmerman, is said to have staggered from the alley toward the lot, crossing the short distance before collapsing under the glow of the store's lights.
Reports note wounds to the arm and face, details that framed a swift, close-range attack without warning.
Records notated Lucas A. Zimmerman, as living on the 4800 block of North Damen Avenue, tying the victim back to a quieter stretch of the city even as the shooting made him the second person killed by gunfire in Irving Park that week.
The contrast between home and the corner where he fell sharpened the tragedy into a blunt fact of the city's spring of 2013.
Police immediately opened a homicide investigation and canvassed the area through the night, but by that morning no one was in custody.
Subsequent roundups of weekend violence and victim lists repeated the circumstances of 34-year-old Lucas A. Zimmerman's killing without naming a suspect or announcing charges, and public reporting since has not documented an arrest in the case.
