Jabril Ross, 35, was fatally shot on January 7, 2023, inside a barbershop in the 7400 block of State Street in East St. Louis, about three blocks from Katie Harper Wright Elementary School. Illinois State Police troopers from the ISP’s Zone 6 Public Safety Enforcement Group, assisted by the East St. Louis Police Department, opened the investigation that day.

The case was one of several shootings that occurred across the country on January 7, 2023, and it drew local attention to community programs and resources focused on violence prevention, including efforts by Better Family Life, Life Outside of Violence, the Urban League of Metropolitan St. Louis, and Cure Violence.

If anyone was in the area of State Street near that barbershop on January 7, 2023, or has information about Jabril Ross’s case, please come forward.