Eighteen-year-old Jwuan Jones, an African American male, was shot and killed on April 4, 2021, in Joliet, Illinois. The shooting occurred around 9 p.m. while Jones was a passenger in a vehicle near Western Avenue and North Bluff Street. He was taken to St. Joseph Medical Center, where the Will County Coroner’s Office determined the cause of death was a gunshot wound.

Joliet Police identified the vehicle used in the homicide and stopped it the next day, April 5, 2021; occupants were questioned and investigators recovered the firearm at a Oneida Street residence after obtaining consent to search. Two Joliet residents, 19-year-old Adrian Bibian II and 26-year-old Paola Diaz, were arrested and charged with murder. A third suspect, 30-year-old Aidan Marquez-Martinez of Bolingbrook, was later taken into custody on April 21, 2024, by the US Marshals Service and returned to Joliet custody.

Anyone with information about what happened that night or who knew Jwuan is asked to come forward.