On February 29, 2024, a shooting at the Garden Apartments in Lexington, Missouri, killed 17-year-old Jobe Naylor. Naylor, a resident of Independence, Missouri, was visiting a friend at about 4:00 PM when the shooting occurred. He was found deceased inside one of the apartments; three other juveniles were injured, one discovered outside where officers provided life-saving measures and another already transported to hospital.

Naylor was a student and athlete who had recently enrolled in a vocational college to study automotive work, a trade he shared with his grandfather. He was being cared for by his grandparents at the time of his death. Two individuals were seen fleeing after the shooting and were quickly apprehended; both are juveniles, so limited identifying and legal information has been released.

If anyone was at the Garden Apartments that afternoon or has information about those who fled, please come forward to assist the ongoing inquiry.