Chicago police on Friday released a short video clip of a masked gunman who fatally shot a man at a Humboldt Park gas station more than four years ago, asking the public for help identifying the shooter. Why the Chicago Police Department waited until now to seek that help remains unclear, given that video of the attack has circulated online since the day after 32-year-old Corey Finley was killed on a rainy morning on May 3, 2022.
The gunman, openly carrying a large rifle, ran across the 3700 block of Chicago Avenue around 10:41 a.m. and began shooting as he approached the gas station driveway, according to the video released Friday. The CPD clip ends almost exactly where the widely circulated video from 2022 begins, showing the fatal attack on Finley.
The online footage (discretion advised), which is only about five seconds long, starts with Finley falling onto the pavement near the gas station driveway as the gunman fires at him from close range. The shooter then briefly turns his rifle toward a car leaving the driveway before firing again at Finley, who was trying to get back on his feet. The gunman then ran back across Chicago Avenue toward Hamlin Avenue…