Blane L. Jones II, a 34-year-old Black man from Chester, Pennsylvania, was fatally shot after a gunfight on the evening of June 27, 2017 near 11th Street and McDowell Avenue. He was struck multiple times in his upper torso, taken to a nearby hospital for emergency surgery, and died the following day.

Surveillance footage and witness testimony played a central role in the investigation by the Chester Police Department and the Delaware County Criminal Investigation Division. Those leads identified 19-year-old Devonte Perkins, also known as Hurk, as the shooter; he was charged with first-degree murder and related offenses. The trial record shows the jury convicted Perkins of first-degree murder in December 2018 and, in February 2019, he received life in prison without parole for Jones’s killing.

What details about Jones’s life in Chester or that night might help anyone who remembers him or who witnessed the shooting come forward?