Jayden Velazquez-Garcia was 19 and a resident of Plainfield, Illinois when he was fatally shot in Joliet Township’s Preston Heights area on July 24, 2024. The shooting occurred at about 3:45 p.m. while he was sitting in a vehicle near Luana Road and Girard Boulevard. Velazquez-Garcia managed to drive a short distance before exiting the vehicle in the 100 block of Girard Boulevard, where Will County Sheriff’s deputies found him in the roadway.

He was taken to Ascension Saint Joseph – Joliet and pronounced dead at 5:43 p.m. The Will County Sheriff’s Office has described the attack as isolated and targeted. Witnesses said a suspect or suspects ran west on Luana Road after the shooting, but no arrests or suspect details have been released and the case remains unsolved.

Does anyone who was in the Preston Heights area that afternoon have information that could help investigators?