Last August, 25-year-old Darius Walker was shot and killed in a mass shooting on the 1500 block of South Trumbull Avenue. Three others were also shot during the incident, including another man, woman and a 15-year-old boy, according to police records.
The stretch of Trumbull Avenue where the shooting happened is located in the city's North Lawndale community and is lined with older Chicago graystones.
The group was holding a memorial for another gun-violence victim who was fatally shot the day before, just one block over, according to a social media account that follows Chicago crime.
The gun recovered from the incident, a Taurusdelete comma semi-automatic pistol, was reportedly stolen from a car on the same street the mass shooting occurred on - an hour earlier.
The gun theft was one of 700 guns stolen during roughly 35,000 car break-ins in 2023.
And Walker was one of eight Chicagoans killed with stolen guns last year.
CBS News Chicago has tracked a post-pandemic rise in car break-ins over the last three years. Parking garages in the Loop, entire streets in the South Loop, neighborhoods on the Southwest Side, and others have been repeatedly targeted by thieves smashing out windows, sometimes hitting a dozen or more cars at once.
Public safety officials have long bemoaned the flow of illegal guns coming into Chicago, but as legal gun ownership swelled during the pandemic, so too did the number of guns kept in vehicles.
The CBS News Data Team pored over 23 years of gun inventory data from the Chicago Police Department, and analyzed data of hundreds of subsequent crimes where guns were recovered. The results show how guns purchased by residents for protection are being used in robberies, carjackings and shootings - exacerbating the city's gun-violence problem.