A fatal shooting two weeks earlier was still on the officers’ radar.
Gunfire had left a 32-year-old man dead on West Flournoy Street in the West Garfield Park neighborhood, and police had no suspects. Now, three plainclothes officers from the Chicago Police Department’s Harrison District (11th) were pulling up to a two-flat in the 3800 block of West Flournoy — about a block from the earlier shooting — and found several people standing outside.
Someone else nearby yelled out, “It’s real,” signaling to others that police officers had arrived. It was just before 10 a.m. on April 15, and one of the men, 24-year-old Reginald Clay Jr., was leaning against a nearby vehicle.
