A bullet from a 9mm handgun crashed into Keith Blumenberg's skull on Sept. 30, 1995, killing the 19-year-old factory worker.
The bullet was fired from a passing car into a crowd outside 9244 S. Blackstone. But in a neighborhood where the fear of gangs trumped willingness to help the police, none of the witnesses could describe the shooter.
For the ATF, which had launched the Integrated Ballistics Information System in 1995, solving the long-cold mystery was a sweet victory. "This is the oldest unsolved murder case in Illinois that has been solved by IBIS," said Thomas Ahern, an ATF spokesman.
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The bullet was fired from a passing car into a crowd outside 9244 S. Blackstone. But in a neighborhood where the fear of gangs trumped willingness to help the police, none of the witnesses could describe the shooter.
For the ATF, which had launched the Integrated Ballistics Information System in 1995, solving the long-cold mystery was a sweet victory. "This is the oldest unsolved murder case in Illinois that has been solved by IBIS," said Thomas Ahern, an ATF spokesman.
http://www.suntimes.com/output/news/cst-nws-bullet31.html