Malik Tyshun Williams

Malik Tyshun Williams was a 19-year-old young man from Chicago whose life represented the ordinary hopes and everyday ties of someone still building his path. Public records and contemporary news reports identify Malik by name and age and place him in the West Side neighborhood where he lived and moved among neighbors, friends, and family.

Though formal public tributes and a family-published obituary matching the available official death date were not located in established obituary outlets, contemporary reporting confirms the essential facts: Malik died on January 11, 2019, in Chicago. The accounts note he was walking in an alley in the 5000 block of West Concord Place when he was fatally shot. Those details, while part of the public record of his death, do not capture the human being he was — a son, likely a sibling, neighbor, and friend whose life carried quiet meaning to those who knew him.

When memorializing Malik, it is important to hold to what can be verified and to respect the limits of the public record. There is little publicly available personal detail such as schooling, employment, or hobbies tied to reliable sources that would allow confident description. That absence should not be read as absence of value: many young lives are lived largely within family circles and local communities and do not appear fully in online archives.

This remembrance honors Malik by focusing on the certainty that he was a young person with people who cared about him. Those who loved him — family members, classmates, neighbors, or friends — were left with the sudden loss of a life at the age when possibilities are only beginning to unfold. In remembering Malik Tyshun Williams, we acknowledge his name, his age, and the fact that his life mattered to those around him.

If family members or close friends wish to add photographs, remembrances, or details about Malik’s life — his interests, relationships, and the small moments that made him who he was — those contributions would help this memorial better reflect him as a person rather than as a line in a news report. Until such first-person remembrances are available, this page respectfully preserves the confirmed facts and the recognition that Malik’s life had meaning beyond what public records record.