Antwon Brown, 26, was stabbed in the first block of North Hamlin Boulevard, in the Garfield Park area of Chicago's West Side, on the morning of Friday, October 4, 2019, and died at a hospital soon after. The Chicago Sun-Times homicide tracker, which lists every homicide in the city, places the killing in East Garfield Park. Area North detectives of the Chicago Police Department investigated.
According to Chicago police and the Cook County medical examiner's office, Brown was stabbed in the chest at 9:13 a.m. He was taken in critical condition to Mount Sinai Hospital, where he was pronounced dead. An autopsy conducted that Sunday found that he died of multiple sharp force injuries, and his death was ruled a homicide. No one else was reported hurt.
Police said the stabbing was domestic in nature but did not provide further details.
A 24-year-old woman was taken into custody and questioned, and the Sun-Times first reported the case under a headline saying a woman was in custody. She was later released without being charged, police said. Police never publicly named her or explained her relationship to Brown, and no later arrest, charge, suspect description or reward offer tied to his death could be found.
Few details of Antwon Brown's life have been published. An online obituary from Brooks Memorial Chapel remembers an Antwon L. Brown, known to friends as "Young Money Twon," born May 11, 1993, to Latoya Brown; that birth date would match his age, though the available text does not confirm that it is the same young man. Searches for his name are dominated by a different Chicago man named Antwon Brown who was in the news in 2026, and by others in Wisconsin, South Carolina and southern Illinois, which makes it hard to find any trace of the 26-year-old who died in 2019.
Hamlin Boulevard runs along the western side of Garfield Park, the large West Side park best known for the Garfield Park Conservatory. The first block of North Hamlin lies just north of Madison Street, a busy commercial corridor. A stabbing at 9:13 on a weekday morning, in a place where people were heading to work, school and errands, may have been seen or heard by neighbors, drivers or people walking near the park.
Chicago recorded about 500 homicides in 2019, down from about 580 the year before. Chicago police reported clearing roughly half of the city's homicides in the years from 2019 through 2023, though those figures count cases closed without charges. Domestic killings in which a person is questioned and released can remain open for years unless new evidence or a witness comes forward.
No criminal charge or court case connected to the death of Antwon Brown could be found in news archives or public records; the woman taken into custody that day was released without charges, and no later arrest has been reported. More than 7 years later, there is no public sign that anyone has been held responsible. Anyone who was near Hamlin Boulevard and Madison Street that morning, or who knows what happened between Antwon Brown and the people in his life in October 2019, may be able to help. Even a small detail, such as a name overheard, a car seen leaving the area or a conversation remembered, can help detectives move a case forward. Anyone with information can call the Chicago Police Department's anonymous tip line at (833) 408-0069 or submit a tip online at CPDTIP.com, or contact Cook County Crime Stoppers at (800) 535-STOP (7867).
