On September 14, 2010, Salomon Abonce, a 43-year old Hispanic male, was wounded in a shooting on Chicago's South Side and later pronounced dead at 10:32 p.m. at John H. Stroger Jr. Hospital of Cook County. Public reporting at the time identified him as living on the 8000 block of South Nottingham Avenue in nearby Burbank, and the medical examiner's office confirmed his death that night.
The brief notices that followed painted a stark, matter of fact picture: a South Side attack, a rush to Stroger, and a life that ended before midnight. Obituaries published within days anchored the essential facts of the loss, his name, age, the September 14 date, and the Chicago hospital where he died, while friends and family gathered to mourn a father and husband whose absence would be felt long after the headlines faded.
In the aftermath, no suspect was publicly named and no arrests were reported in contemporaneous coverage. A review of later public resources that track Chicago homicide cases likewise offers no published indication of an arrest connected to the killing, underscoring how the case slipped into the city's unsolved tally.
Those memorial notices also recorded the contours of the life left behind. He was remembered in Spanish language tributes that noted his age and the hospital where he died, and they named the family members who survived him, including his wife, Leticia Abonce, and their children, details that, taken together, sketch a portrait of a 43 year old man whose death on the South Side reverberated through a household and a community.
