Cercy P Robinson

Cercy Robinson was a teenager rooted in his West Garfield Park neighborhood on Chicago’s West Side. Public records and local reporting identify him as a 17-year-old who lived on the 4300 block of West Wilcox Street. Though the public record of Cercy’s life is limited, what is clear is that he was a local young person with family and community ties in a neighborhood where everyday life, friendships and family connections matter deeply.

On July 14, 2017, Cercy’s life ended suddenly. According to Cook County Medical Examiner identification and contemporary reporting, he was shot and later died at Mount Sinai Hospital. Those facts are part of the public record; they are also a sorrowful reminder that a young life — with hopes, relationships, and the promise of a future — was cut short. Even when public details are necessarily sparse, a name like Cercy’s stands for the real human connections left behind: parents, siblings, relatives, friends and neighbors who carry the memory of shared moments, routines and small kindnesses.

Because no family-published obituary or funeral notice matching the exact date of death was found in public obituary databases, this remembrance focuses on acknowledging Cercy as a person rather than on the circumstances that ended his life. He belonged to a neighborhood where family, church, school and friends shape the rhythms of growing up. For many in West Garfield Park, losing a neighbor or young person is both a personal grief and a communal wound; Cercy’s name appears in local remembrance lists and reporting from July 2017, and those references show that his death was noticed and mourned by people who knew him.

This page honors Cercy by recording the verified facts of his life and death while acknowledging the limits of public records. He was a 17-year-old who lived in West Garfield Park and whose life mattered to those around him. May this brief remembrance offer a respectful place to hold his name and the quiet, human loss felt by family and community.