A dispute that began at River Oaks Mall in Calumet City on the evening of January 26, 2017, ended in murder the next morning. Twenty-one-year-old Kadejah Jackson fought there with 23-year-old Kashena Lavette Hayes, who was also involved with Jackson’s boyfriend, 24-year-old Lavell Holloway. Shortly after midnight on January 27, Hayes returned to Jackson’s home in the 900 block of Becker Street with two other women and a brick. A confrontation drew Jackson, her mother and her sister outside.

Lavell Holloway arrived in a dark Nissan Altima, got out of the passenger side and fired between seven and nine shots using the car’s roof for support. Two bullets struck Jackson in the abdomen. She was taken to St. Margaret Hospital and then transferred to Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, where she was pronounced dead at 3:55 a.m.; her death was ruled a homicide.

Hammond Police identified Holloway as the shooter from family witness statements. Holloway was arrested and a handgun hidden in his vehicle was recovered; ballistic testing matched the shell casings to that weapon. Both Holloway and Hayes were charged with murder, and a jury later found Holloway guilty after a trial that began in August 2020. Did anyone who knew Kadejah or who was in that neighborhood that night see anything that could clarify what happened earlier that evening at the mall or afterward at Becker Street?