On January 18, 2023, 20-year-old Jaylen Crump of Zion, Illinois, was fatally shot in a residence on the 1600 block of Barnhart Court. The night began hours earlier when Zion police responded about 12:12 a.m. to a report of a man attacking a woman with a gun in the 2700 block of Hebron Avenue; officers found Crump there with a facial injury she said had been caused when her 28-year-old ex-boyfriend, Michael White, struck her with a pistol. White fled before police arrived.

Crump had been moved at her request to the Barnhart Court home to stay with family, but at about 5:13 a.m. a third party reported White was at that address threatening her. Officers evacuated 15 occupants, including children, after entering the house; a single gunshot was then heard from a bedroom. White emerged and surrendered, handing over the weapon. Police found Crump in the bedroom with a gunshot wound to the head; the Lake County Coroner’s Office ruled the cause of death a gunshot wound to the head. White was charged with two counts of first-degree murder and held on $10 million bond.

Did anyone in the neighborhood or at the Barnhart Court address see White before the shooting or hear anything that could help clarify what happened that morning?