Anji Webster

Anji Webster was a 25-year-old Chicago resident whose life was rooted in the Humboldt Park neighborhood. Public records and community memorial lists identify him by name and hometown; he appears on local compilations honoring victims of gun violence in the city. On July 18, 2020, Webster was killed in the early morning in the 3400 block of West Ohio Street. The Cook County medical examiner ruled his death a homicide from multiple gunshot wounds, and his passing was reported in local news coverage that noted the time and location of the shooting.

Beyond the facts recorded in news and public records, the available public information about Anji centers on the loss experienced by family and community. Local remembrance efforts — including a community book of remembrance that lists Webster among other Chicagoans lost to gun violence — show that his death was felt beyond an isolated report; he is named alongside many neighbors whose lives were cut short during that period. Later, in March 2021, law-enforcement reporting and court-related coverage recorded an arrest connected to the shooting, reflecting the ongoing search for accountability that followed his death.

Public records that reference Webster’s name in other administrative contexts indicate he was a person known to his neighborhood and to local systems, but they do not provide fuller details about his day-to-day life, work, or personal relationships. In keeping with the available sources, this remembrance avoids inventing particulars and instead honors the fact that Anji was a real person from Humboldt Park whose life mattered to family, friends, and neighbors. His inclusion in community memorials and news reports serves as a quiet testament: a young life remembered by name.

Anji’s loss is part of a larger pattern of grief in Chicago communities affected by gun violence. While public records tell only a portion of his story, those records confirm his identity, the date he died, and the neighborhood where he lived. For those who knew him, his name is a call to remember a person, not merely an event. This page is intended to hold that name with dignity and to acknowledge the human life behind the public record.