Jacob Ryan Jones was 19 and a freshman at Western Michigan University when he was fatally shot on December 8, 2016, inside the SoHo 700 apartments on Howard Street in Kalamazoo. Officers found him deceased at the scene around 10:30 p.m. Jacob was studying exercise science and had grown up in Onsted, Michigan; he had been active in football, basketball, and baseball.

Investigators determined the shooting was not random. Two suspects fled the scene. One, Western Michigan basketball player Joeviair Kennedy, was arrested and charged with open murder, home invasion, and armed robbery and was suspended from the team. Kennedy later identified his former Muskegon High School teammate Jordan Waire as the person who shot Jacob. An eyewitness described the shooter, wearing a red bandana, pushing Jacob onto a couch and then shooting him in the face as Jacob tried to stand.

If anyone knew Jacob, his whereabouts that night, or has information about the second person who fled, please come forward.