A Minneapolis man is facing murder charges nearly 19 months after police say he walked up to a car parked in Chicago's Englewood neighborhood and opened fire, killing an Evanston man inside. Alec Tibbetts, 29, was arrested in Minnesota on Thursday and extradited to Chicago to face a first-degree murder charge in the death of 42-year-old Kevin Daniels.
Police said the shooting happened around 11 a.m. on March 24, 2025, in the 6600 block of South Sangamon Avenue, according to FOX 32 Chicago. Tibbetts approached Daniels while Daniels was sitting inside a car and shot him multiple times, authorities said. As FOX9 reported, citing police, the attack left Daniels with gunshot wounds that proved fatal.
Daniels was rushed to the University of Chicago Hospital after the shooting, where he later died. The Cook County Medical Examiner's Office identified him as a resident of Evanston. The station's report notes that Tibbetts now faces charges of first-degree murder and first-degree murder proximate cause.
Arrest Came More Than a Year Later
Tibbetts, who is from Minneapolis, remained free for roughly a year and a half after the Englewood shooting before his arrest on Thursday in Minnesota. He was then extradited back to Chicago to face the charges. Per the same account, a detention hearing for Tibbetts was scheduled for Friday.
The circumstances that led investigators to Tibbetts, along with any connection he may have had to Daniels, were not detailed in the report.
Shooting Fit a Broader Pattern of Decline
The Englewood killing happened during a stretch when Chicago was seeing some of its lowest violent crime numbers in years. Through the first half of 2025, Chicago police recorded 188 homicides and 665 shootings, declines of 32% and 39% respectively from the same period in 2024, according to WTTW News.
Overall violent crime in the city was down at least 22% over that same stretch compared with 2024, WTTW reported. June 2025 alone saw just 34 homicides, half the total from June 2024 and the fewest recorded in that month since 2014, the outlet noted. Police also recovered 5,513 illegal firearms during the first six months of the year, an average of 32 guns taken off the street every day.
