Jackie Sebastian Harper, 33, of South Charleston, was shot and killed inside a residence in the 2400 block of Ninth Avenue in Huntington, West Virginia, on July 7, 2026. The shooting was reported shortly after 1 p.m. near Ninth Avenue and 24th Street; officers found Harper suffering from the gunfire and he was pronounced dead at the scene. His obituary lists parents, siblings, grandparents, extended relatives and a girlfriend among survivors.

Investigators moved quickly. By July 10 a criminal complaint named Kendall Deion Crutcher in the killing; Crutcher was located and arrested by U.S. Marshals in Eastpointe, Michigan, on a first-degree murder warrant and later extradited back to Cabell County. A second warrant charged Javon Carpenter with conspiracy to commit murder; Carpenter was arrested at his Cabell County residence. At a magistrate preliminary hearing on August 14, surveillance evidence including neighborhood Ring camera footage and information about a Ford Bronco connected Crutcher to the scene, and the magistrate bound the case over to a grand jury. No trial or conviction has been reported.

Anyone with information about Harper, the residence on Ninth Avenue, the Ford Bronco, or activity in the neighborhood around July 7, 2026, is asked to come forward.