Ahmir Jones was 18 when she was shot and killed in North Philadelphia on November 16, 2021. She and her girlfriend were walking on the 1700 block of Cecil B. Moore Avenue when two people announced a robbery; one grabbed the girlfriend’s cellphone while the other fatally shot Jones in the chest. She was taken to Temple University Hospital and died less than two hours later.

Jones was a senior at Pottstown High School and a member of the varsity soccer team. She had spent much of her life in the foster care system, was living with a foster family in Pottstown, and was described by family and friends as fun-loving and turning her life around. Her death deeply affected her mother and four sisters.

Philadelphia homicide detectives linked two 16-year-old males, Syneef Blackwell and Jameer Martin, to Jones’s murder while investigating a series of armed robberies nearby. Surveillance and victims of an earlier robbery helped identify the suspects. Blackwell was arrested November 28 and held on $2 million bail; Martin was arrested December 3 and held without bail. Anyone who knew Ahmir or has information is asked to come forward.