J’son Markel Hunt, 27, was fatally shot on January 14, 2024, in a strip mall on West Huron Street in Pontiac, Michigan. He died of a gunshot wound to the head; another man was left critically injured in the same incident. This was reported as the first homicide of the year in Oakland County.

Oakland County Sheriff’s detectives identified two Pontiac men in connection with the shooting. Twenty-six-year-old Jermaine Lee Jackson was named the primary suspect; he was arrested in Detroit on January 25 while reporting for a mandatory probation meeting and charged with open murder, assault with intent to murder, and multiple firearms offenses, including possession of a firearm by a felon. Jackson was denied bond. Twenty-five-year-old Ja-Vontay Darnell Boykin was arrested in Pontiac on January 20 and charged with being an accessory after the fact and lying to a police officer; his bond was set at $250,000. Both are held at the Oakland County Jail.

J’son Hunt’s mother, Telethia Hunt, has spoken publicly against gun violence and called for stricter gun laws, noting that the man charged in her son’s death had a prior felony and a parole violation for weapon possession. Does anyone have information about J’son’s activities that day or the strip mall location that could help clarify what happened?