Seventeen-year-old Jamiere Jenkins was shot and killed on November 28, 2023, in the Cambria neighborhood of San Tan Valley, Arizona. A junior at Combs High School and a wide receiver who wore number 10, Jamiere suffered a single gunshot wound to the neck after a verbal altercation with another teenager near North Cortona and Cambria Drives. Deputies responded around 5:10 p.m.; Jamiere was taken to a hospital but did not survive.

Investigators used neighborhood Ring camera footage to identify a vehicle connected to the incident. The next day 17-year-old Anthony Jason Garcia was taken into custody by the Pinal County Sheriff’s Office, initially booked into the youth justice center and later transferred to the county jail to be charged as an adult. A Pinal County grand jury indicted him on second-degree murder.

Jamiere’s coaches, teammates, friends, and family remembered him as generous, loyal, and compassionate; a candlelight vigil at the Combs High football stadium displayed his jersey. If anyone knew Jamiere or has information about that evening, please come forward.