On July 1, 2020, 18-year-old Jacquice Baylock, a sophomore and football player at Iowa Central Community College, was shot and killed in Gary, Indiana. He was found with multiple gunshot wounds in the 1800 block of Taney Place around 6:40 p.m. and was pronounced dead at a local hospital shortly afterward. Baylock was remembered by his coach as a great kid with a bright future and had been expected back at school in Fort Dodge days after his murder.

Investigators say the killing began when a 19-year-old woman, Jazmin Jazell Garcia, lured Baylock to Gary at the direction of her jealous boyfriend. Garcia told police her boyfriend had talked about killing Baylock and threatened her life if she didn’t bring him to a predetermined location. The woman and Baylock arrived near a former middle school in a stolen car; a second stolen vehicle carrying at least four men followed. Two men from that car, including Garcia’s boyfriend, approached and shot Baylock multiple times. As he tried to flee he dropped a large amount of cash, which the assailants took; the group fled back toward Illinois.

Charges were filed against Garcia for murder, and Jason D. Hinton, 25, and LeQuan Tolliver, 19, from Chicago Heights were also charged.

Did anyone in the Gary or Lynwood area know Baylock or see him the evening he was lured to that location?