In the early morning of January 20, 2019, 21-year-old Jacque Holbert was fatally shot at his home near 38th Avenue and Burdette Street in Omaha. Holbert was asleep in his bed when bullets came through the house shortly before 1:40 a.m.; he was taken to the Nebraska Medical Center but died of his injuries. Omaha’s police described the house as a prior target and said a vehicle may have been involved. No arrest has been publicly announced in direct connection with Holbert’s killing.

Holbert’s death deepened a family history of gun violence: his father, Jacque S. Holbert III, was murdered in 1997 at age 16, and an uncle, Travis Holbert, was shot and killed in 2015. Family remembered Jacque as a graduate of Omaha Central High School who loved his family and tried to avoid trouble. Court filings in an unrelated case later described Holbert, also called Jack, as a member of the 38th Street Bloods and suggested subsequent shootings were retaliatory, but the person or persons who shot him remain publicly unidentified.

If anyone knew Jacque, was in that neighborhood that night, or has information about the shooting, please come forward to investigators.