Jacquaez Simmis

Jacquaez Simmis, a 22-year-old Black man, was killed in a shooting in the early hours of Saturday, November 19, 2011, in Omaha, Nebraska. The incident was one of three separate shootings that took place in North Omaha that night. Police were called to the area near 33rd and Burdette at approximately 2 a.m., where they found Jacquaez dead at the scene. Another person was also shot during the incident but was taken to a hospital with what were described as minor injuries.

Less than a year before his death, Simmis had been connected to another homicide. On December 18, 2010, 33-year-old Mickle Graham was killed when up to 20 bullets were fired through the walls of his fiancé’s home. Graham’s mother believed her son was targeted because he had flirted with someone. Simmis was one of three people arrested and accused in Graham’s murder.

However, Simmis never went to prison for the crime. Of the three individuals initially arrested in the Mickle Graham case, only one ended up serving significant prison time, and that was for an unrelated crime. Almost exactly eleven months after Graham was killed, Simmis was fatally gunned down.

The Omaha Police Department launched a homicide investigation into the death of Jacquaez Simmis, but details about the circumstances or a potential motive have not been released. To date, no arrests have been made in the case, and no suspects have been publicly identified.

As of December 2025, the murder of Jacquaez Simmis is considered a cold case and remains unsolved. Authorities have asked that anyone with information regarding the shooting call Omaha Crime Stoppers at 444-STOP, visit their website, or text "OPD" to 274637.