Warren Robinson

Warren Robinson was a 16-year-old young man from Chicago’s South Side whose life was cut short on July 5, 2014. Public records and contemporaneous news reports identify him as an African American teen living in the Gresham neighborhood. Though few public sources record details of his everyday life, the available reporting notes that he was days away from his 17th birthday when he died, and that family and neighbors identified him at the scene.

The public record about Warren focuses largely on the events surrounding his death and the legal and civic questions that followed. Even so, it is important to acknowledge the human life behind those headlines: a teenager with family, friends, and the ordinary hopes and plans common to people his age. Where formal tributes or a published funeral notice are not publicly available, what remains clear from reporting is that his loss affected those close to him and became part of a broader community conversation about policing, accountability, and young lives in Chicago.

Because published obituary or funeral-home notices matching his name and exact date of death were not found in reliable online obituary repositories or funeral-home sites, this remembrance focuses on honoring Warren as a person rather than recounting investigative details. He was known to people in his neighborhood and identified by loved ones after the Fourth of July weekend in 2014. That recognition by family and community members is a reminder that Warren’s life mattered to people who loved him and remembered him in private ways that public records do not always capture.

This page respectfully preserves his name and the verified date of his passing so that Warren Robinson is not reduced to statistics. Where public documentation is limited, the simplest and most faithful tribute is to name him, to acknowledge his youth, and to leave space for family and friends to add the personal memories and stories that truly convey who he was. May this remembrance offer a modest measure of dignity and recognition for a life ended far too soon.