Overview
- A man was found fatally shot in the 3100 block of West 39th Place in Brighton Park, and police say he may have lain there for more than two hours before a passerby found him.
- Dispatchers logged two shots-fired calls around 2:27 a.m., officers located the victim around 4:15 a.m., and an officer at the scene reported 29 shell casings nearby.
- Police said the victim, listed as a John Doe, had gunshot wounds to the head and body and was pronounced dead at the scene as a homicide probe continues.
- The location was previously covered by ShotSpotter, an audio system that pinpointed likely gunfire locations, until Mayor Brandon Johnson ended the program in September 2024 despite opposition from the police superintendent and a City Council supermajority.
- CWB Chicago, which compiles its own dataset, reports 81 post-ShotSpotter cases with delayed discovery and a 58% fatality rate, a finding now fueling debate over the city’s response times and use of gunfire detection technology.