On October 6, 2023, 28-year-old tow truck driver and U.S. Navy veteran Jack Jacobson was fatally shot in the East Garfield Park neighborhood of Chicago. Jacobson, who worked for Northwest Recovery out of Rolling Meadows, had just repossessed a black Land Rover after the borrower handed over the keys. Shortly afterward he was ambushed by a large group of unknown individuals who fired about fifty rounds; seven bullets struck and killed him.

His body was found at about 1:30 a.m. in his bullet-riddled tow truck on the 200 block of West Fifth Avenue with the repossessed Land Rover still attached. Investigators recovered casings from multiple calibers and a handgun next to the victim, though it is unclear if that gun was fired or who it belonged to. Video from a nearby city pod camera and the tow truck’s onboard cameras are being reviewed. Jacobson’s family, including his mother Ericha Lilly-Hosick and his fiancée, were preparing for a baby shower for his first child, a daughter due in February, and are now arranging funeral plans.

If anyone saw activity on West Fifth Avenue around 1:30 a.m. on October 6, 2023, or has information about the ambush, please come forward.