Black male Deandre J. Alexander, age 22, was fatally shot on January 23, 2012, in Chicago, Illinois.
His death came amid a relentless drumbeat of gunfire that winter, another life cut short in a city struggling to stem violence that often concentrated on young men in disinvested neighborhoods.
Publicly available reports about the shooting are sparse.
What survives online is largely a bare record of the killing, name, age, date, city, without the small but human details that anchor a life to a block, a school, a job, a family. Police opened an investigation, but subsequent updates were not reported in widely accessible news accounts, leaving the circumstances of the attack, how it unfolded, what sparked it, and who was there at the last moment, frustratingly thin in the public record.
There is no public indication that a suspect was identified or that arrests were announced in connection with the killing of Deandre J. Alexander, age 22, male.
The case remains one of many in which the online trail ends abruptly after the initial death notice, with community pages still soliciting information years later and no follow-up coverage documenting a clearance.
The year 2012 would close with more than 500 homicides citywide, a grim tally that shaped the narrative around Chicago's violence for years.
Contemporary summaries counted 506 killings and emphasized how gunfire accounted for the vast majority of deaths; independent trackers placed the total slightly higher, underscoring that, whatever the precise number, it was a devastating year.
In that larger story, the death of Deandre J. Alexander, age 22, male, became one more name on a ledger that was already too long.
