Latino male Armando Aguirre, age 25, was shot on the night of October 23, 2011, on a quiet stretch of the 2400 block of West 74th Street in Chicago Lawn.
Just after 11 p.m., police found the 25-year-old on the sidewalk with a gunshot wound to his back, the kind of late-hour street scene that draws little more than the thud of squad doors and the quick strobe of blue lights before the block falls silent again.
His death unfolded during a weekend of citywide bloodshed that left four people dead and 22 wounded, a grim roll call that placed the 25-year-old's killing among a series of hurried dispatches from neighborhoods spread across the South and West Sides.
In that weekend summary, authorities fixed the time, 11:04 p.m., and the place, West 74th Street, while confirming he had been shot in the back in Chicago Lawn.
In the immediate aftermath, police did not announce an arrest or publicly identify any suspects tied to the shooting on West 74th Street, and early coverage offered no motive, only the bare facts of where and when the 25-year-old was found.
Available public listings that memorialize the case repeat those essentials, his name, age, the neighborhood sidewalk where he fell, without recording any subsequent suspects or charges.
Records later preserved the 25-year-old's date of death, October 23, 2011, and note his burial at Saint Mary Catholic Cemetery in suburban Evergreen Park, details that mark the end of the official trail even as the questions around his killing remain.
