Jaijuan Jenkins, 19, known to friends as Juan Juan, was shot and killed at a Columbus, Ohio apartment on the evening of August 15, 2023. Officers responded after a dispatcher sent them at about 7:07 p.m. to a report of a front door left wide open with a body visible inside. Medics pronounced Jenkins dead at the scene at 7:17 p.m.

Witnesses who spoke with police identified a suspect and told investigators that Jenkins and the suspect had been involved in a dispute before the shooting. Court documents later named 18-year-old Jaylon Wilson and a murder warrant was issued for his arrest on August 24. Authorities located and arrested Wilson out of state on September 12, 2023; he was brought back to Franklin County and arraigned on September 30 with bond set at just over $200,000.

A plea in Franklin County court later resolved the criminal case when Jaylon Wilson pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter in connection with Jenkins’s death. If anyone knew Jaijuan, his movements that evening, or has information about the dispute that preceded the shooting, please share what is known.