Corie Deshon Williams

Corie Deshon Williams was an 18-year-old from Chicago whose life was rooted in the neighborhoods of the city’s South Side. Public records and contemporaneous reporting identify Corie as a young man who participated in everyday life there — leaving home, spending time with friends, and being known in his community as someone still making his way into adulthood.

On January 6, 2015, Corie was wounded in a daylight shooting on the South Shore near 79th Street. He was taken to Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, where he later died. Contemporary news coverage records his age as 18 and gives the location and date of his death; community memorial sites and local remembrance projects also list him among those lost that day. These public records show a life cut far too short and a family and neighborhood that felt the loss deeply.

There is limited publicly available personal detail beyond those verified facts: few formal obituaries or family-published memorials appear in major funeral-home or newspaper archives that match his name and the exact date of death. That scarcity of public notices does not diminish Corie’s reality to the people who knew him. Even without a long public record, he remains a named person in local remembrances and databases that track those lost to gun violence in Chicago.

Remembering Corie means honoring the human being behind the headlines — an 18-year-old whose everyday mornings, friendships, and plans mattered to those around him. His death is recorded in the city’s tragic toll for that period, but it should not be the only thing that defines him. In the quiet of a neighborhood that still carries memory, Corie is remembered as a young life that mattered and a presence missed by family and friends who keep him in their thoughts.