On the morning of June 22, 2023, 18-year-old Jarmarion Tremayne Chambers was found unresponsive near the dumpsters at the Montgomery Village apartment complex in South Knoxville. Knoxville Police responded to a call about 6:30 a.m., and officers determined he had been shot multiple times and was pronounced dead at the scene.

Born May 5, 2005, in Knoxville to Jarvis Chambers and Ciara Siler, Jarmarion was a father to a daughter, Jupiter Nicole Chambers, and is mourned by parents, grandparents, numerous siblings and other relatives and friends. Investigators from the Knoxville Police Department’s Homicide Unit collected multiple shell casings on the 1100 block of Daylily Drive and believe he was shot while walking through the apartment complex by an unknown assailant.

No arrests have been announced and the suspect or suspects remain unidentified. Anyone with information that could help investigators is urged to come forward.