Joshua Pilgrim-Smith, a 20-year-old African American man, was shot multiple times on September 5, 2019, in the 300 block of Hirsch Avenue in Calumet City, Illinois. He died of his wounds on September 11, 2019, the Cook County medical examiner’s office ruled his death a homicide after an autopsy.

The shooting was one of several fatal incidents in Calum City that year; the city recorded eight homicides in 2019 compared with three in 2018 and two in 2017. No immediate arrests were made after Pilgrim-Smith’s shooting, and the Calumet City Police Department did not provide detailed comments at the time.

Anyone with information about Joshua Pilgrim-Smith’s shooting or who was in the area of the 300 block of Hirsch Avenue on September 5, 2019, is asked to come forward.