Court documents tied Abdulhafedh Abdulhafedh to a robbery crew accused in suburban bank holdups.
CHICAGO, Ill. — An FBI agent fatally shot a 25-year-old bank robbery suspect Thursday afternoon in Homan Square after agents stopped a vehicle tied to a violent robbery investigation, authorities and newly filed court documents said.
The man killed was identified by the Cook County Medical Examiner’s Office as Abdulhafedh Abdulhafedh. Federal records filed Friday in a related case described him as a leader of a robbery crew that investigators say targeted banks around the Chicago area. The shooting put a federal use-of-force review alongside a widening bank robbery case involving suburban holdups, surveillance, phone tracking and at least one other suspect now in custody.
The FBI said agents stopped a vehicle at about 3 p.m. Thursday near Garfield Park. The stop happened in the 3700 block of West Lexington Street, where aerial video showed a large law enforcement response, including Chicago police, SWAT officers and federal agents. The FBI said the vehicle was occupied by people wanted in connection with a violent bank robbery. “The FBI takes all shooting incidents involving our agents or task force members seriously,” FBI Chicago said in a statement. The bureau said its Inspection Division is reviewing the shooting under FBI policy.
Witnesses described a sudden burst of gunfire around a black Cadillac Escalade. One neighbor said Abdulhafedh was inside the SUV when agents tried to get him out. “He came up through the sunroof and started spraying bullets, and they sprayed back at him,” the neighbor said. NBC Chicago reported that witnesses heard flashbangs during the confrontation and that photos showed the Escalade with bullet holes in its windshield and driver’s side. The FBI has confirmed one person died but has not released a full public account of how many agents fired, how many shots were fired or whether any agents were injured.
New court documents filed in the case of another suspect, Dayvon Walton, gave more detail about why federal agents were tracking the group. An FBI agent described Abdulhafedh as “Co-Conspirator A” and said he was known to authorities as the leader of a crew called the “100K gang.” Investigators said the crew was linked to several bank robberies in the Chicago area, including an April 21 robbery at a BMO Harris Bank at 300 S. Randall Road in St. Charles. The complaint said three men entered that bank shortly before 5 p.m., two carrying guns, and forced tellers to open vaults.
The St. Charles robbery netted $201,780 in U.S. currency, along with foreign money, according to the complaint. Investigators said one robber gathered cash in black trash bags while another held a pistol and forced a manager and a customer to lie face down in the lobby. A teller told investigators that one armed robber appeared to be receiving directions through headphones connected to a communications device. Police later tracked hidden equipment in the stolen money to an abandoned getaway vehicle, then identified a second getaway vehicle on Chicago’s West Side. Officers later found more than $31,000 in U.S. currency and about $2,000 in foreign currency in a backpack inside that second vehicle, the complaint said.
The court filing said the FBI later received information from a confidential source who identified Walton as part of the bank robbery crew. The source told agents the group planned another bank robbery on May 19, but that plan fell apart because the crew did not have a getaway car. Investigators then obtained court permission to track phones linked to Walton and Abdulhafedh. By Thursday morning, surveillance agents saw both men leave a home and get into the black Escalade with two other people, according to the complaint.
Federal agents initiated the traffic stop on West Lexington Street knowing Abdulhafedh had an active parole violation warrant, the complaint said. Walton and two other people ran from the SUV, while Abdulhafedh stayed inside. After a brief standoff, an agent threw a flash grenade into the vehicle, according to the filing. Investigators said Abdulhafedh then reached through the broken sunroof and fired several shots at agents, who returned fire. Walton was arrested later Thursday. The complaint said he spoke with FBI agents and admitted taking part in the April 21 St. Charles robbery and an attempted bank robbery April 6 in Niles.
Court records also show Abdulhafedh had been on parole after serving prison time tied to a 2022 attempted bank robbery in New Lenox. He had been released from prison less than six months before the shooting, according to reporting based on the records. He also had recently been arrested and charged with possession of a stolen car. A spokesperson for the DuPage County State’s Attorney’s Office said an arrest warrant was issued in April after Abdulhafedh failed to appear at a court hearing in that case. The newly filed federal records said investigators believed he planned robberies and recruited others to carry them out.
At the shooting scene Thursday, a man who said he was Abdulhafedh’s older brother said he did not know whether his brother was connected to a bank robbery. “I’m heartbroken,” he said. “I don’t know how to feel.” Chicago police said officers first responded to reports of a violent crime, but the FBI is leading the investigation. Federal agents and police remained in the neighborhood for hours after the shooting, collecting shell casings and searching for security video as residents watched from nearby homes and sidewalks.
The FBI’s Inspection Division review remains open, and Walton’s federal case is now the clearest public window into the robbery investigation. Authorities have not released the names of the two other people who ran from the Escalade, and the next court steps in Walton’s case will determine how much more evidence becomes public.
Author note: Last updated May 30, 2026.