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Jaionna Michelle Braden was 20 when she and a companion, 23-year-old Quavon Shamar Lee, were found fatally shot inside a running vehicle on Bemis Street SE in Grand Rapids, Michigan on the night of June 7, 2020. Police were called just before midnight after reports of gunshots. Earlier that day Braden had told police her phone was stolen; investigators later found a picture on her phone showing Juan Nico Garcia lying in bed with a gun.

Juan Nico Garcia, a 30-year-old man who had been dating Braden and was on parole, was taken into custody the day after the killings for a parole violation and later charged in the double homicide with two counts of open murder, assault with intent to murder, felony firearm, and being a felon in possession of a firearm. A jury found Garcia guilty in June 2022 and he received life without parole for the murders plus additional prison terms for the other counts.

If anyone knew Jaionna, Quavon, their movements that night, or has information about what led up to the shooting, please come forward.