On June 4, 2014, just after midnight, 23-year-old Darrell Jenkins of Springfield, Massachusetts, was fatally shot on Kensington Avenue in the Forest Park neighborhood. ShotSpotter registered six gunshots at about 12:38 a.m.; police found Jenkins outside his home with gunshot wounds and he was pronounced dead at the scene. A 20-year-old woman who had been with him was struck in the mouth, fled, collapsed nearby, and was hospitalized with injuries she was expected to survive.

Police said they believed the attack was connected to gang activity but that the victims were not thought to be gang members and that the shooting was not random. No arrests have been announced and the case remains unsolved. Darrell’s mother, Juanita Batchelor, went on to form Mothers Overlooked Reaching out Empowerment and the Darrell Lee Jenkins Jr. Families of Homicide Resource Center to support other families and keep attention on unsolved homicides.

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