A 61-year-old man was found lying dead outside his Auburn Gresham home early Friday, the latest gunshot victim to go undiscovered in a neighborhood once monitored by the city’s ShotSpotter system.

Officers responded to the 7600 block of South Sangamon around 1:25 a.m. after a 911 caller reported a man down outside their door.

Police found the victim unresponsive with a gunshot wound to his chest. He was pronounced dead at the scene.

CPD had not received any calls of shots being fired in the area, leaving it unclear how long the man had been there before being discovered.

The man was found in the 17th Ward, represented by Alderman David Moore, who led City Council efforts last year to persuade Mayor Brandon Johnson to keep ShotSpotter active. Two-thirds of aldermen agreed with Moore, as did about 70 percent of Chicago residents and the city’s police superintendent.

Johnson rejected those calls and ended the city’s ShotSpotter contract on September 23, 2024.

The next month, Moore joined several colleagues and business leaders to announce they had raised $2.5 million, enough to cover roughly one-third of the city’s annual ShotSpotter cost. Johnson declined the offer, and the system remains inactive.

Brandon’s Bodies

As of 12:01 a.m. on September 23, 2024, Chicago ended its use of ShotSpotter, a gunfire detection system that had been deployed in 12 of the city’s most violence-impacted neighborhoods. The technology identified suspected gunfire locations down to specific addresses and even pinpointed spots like alleys, sidewalks, or the side of a house.

Mayor Brandon Johnson refused to reverse his decision to dismantle the system, despite calls to preserve it from a majority of aldermen, numerous residents, victims’ advocates, and his own appointed police superintendent.

On this page, CWBChicago tracks cases where people have been found shot in areas that were previously covered by ShotSpotter without timely accompanying 911 calls. These cases often involve victims discovered with no corresponding 911 calls or calls that gave vague or incorrect information about where shots were fired.

Editor’s note: Case #13 was removed from this list on May 21, 2025, after the Cook County Medical Examiner’s Office determined the individual died by suicide in a fall from height.