Jesse Anderson, a 32-year-old Black man from Cleveland, was found fatally shot near a restaurant parking lot on the city’s West Side on July 26, 2025. Authorities investigated his death as a homicide; public gun-violence records also list him as having been fatally shot that day.

For more than a year the case had no public arrest. In September 2026 Maple Heights resident Jerome Henderson was arrested and later indicted by a Cuyahoga County grand jury on aggravated murder, murder, felonious assault and having weapons while under disability. Henderson pleaded not guilty when he appeared in Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court; bond was set at $1 million and the judge ordered no contact with Anderson’s family. Defense attorneys Mary Jo Tipping and Scott Ramsey were appointed and the case was set for pretrial proceedings.

Reporting has not explained what evidence led to Henderson’s arrest, nor disclosed a suspected motive or any known relationship between him and Anderson. Does anyone have information about Anderson’s movements or contacts on July 26, 2025, that could help investigators?