On May 25, 2023, 9-year-old O’Mauri Jones-Brown was fatally shot in the 800 block of Campus Avenue in Matteson, Illinois. An altercation between two groups of young people that began in a nearby suburb escalated back to the residence where O’Mauri lived. Family members say the fighting involved several girls and a teenage boy; after the confrontation appeared to end, the teenage boy produced a gun and began shooting as the family returned to the house. O’Mauri, not involved in the fight, was struck in the abdomen and died after arrival at Franciscan Health Olympia Fields Hospital at about 6:55 p.m.

A 20-year-old woman suffered a non-life-threatening gunshot wound and self-transported to St. James Hospital; O’Mauri’s grandmother was grazed by a bullet and his uncle or father figure was shot in the leg but survived. O’Mauri was a third-grader at Arcadia Elementary School, described as an honor roll student who loved to dance and had a close family bond; his family said he had been staying with his grandmother in Matteson to avoid violence in Chicago. The Matteson Police Department and the South Suburban Major Crimes Task Force led the investigation.

Does anyone have information about the events that led up to the shooting or the groups involved?