On the night of September 22, 2019, 26-year-old Jovon Houston was asleep in a home on Court Street in Mount Clemens, Michigan, when an intruder forced entry and opened fire. Houston was struck multiple times in the face, shoulder, and leg and was later pronounced dead at a local hospital. A woman who was in the home was not physically injured but placed a 911 call that brought police to the scene.

Authorities identified a suspect as the woman’s ex-boyfriend, 26-year-old Howard Adonis Peeples of Clinton Township. Investigators say Peeples broke in through a side door, went to the bedroom where Houston slept, and shot him. Peeples was arrested in Clinton Township shortly after the shooting and was charged with first-degree premeditated murder, felony firearm, and carrying a concealed weapon.

The case went to trial, and in March 2020 Peeples was convicted of first-degree murder and given a life-without-parole sentence plus a consecutive two-year term for the felony firearm conviction. Did anyone in the Mount Clemens area know Jovon Houston or have information about that night that could add detail to what happened?