Do you know who killed 20 year old Jasmine Jerona Banks in 2011? In the late summer of 2011, the life of a young woman from District Heights, Maryland, was tragically cut short. Twenty-year-old Jasmine Jerona Banks was fatally wounded in a shooting that occurred in the early morning hours of Monday, August 8, 2011, in Capitol Heights. The incident took place in the 7900 block of Central Avenue, near a nightclub.
Patrol officers responded to a report of a shooting at approximately 2:44 a.m.
Upon their arrival, they discovered Banks and a male companion suffering from gunshot wounds. Banks had sustained a gunshot wound to the head and was transported to a local hospital in critical condition. Her injuries proved to be insurmountable, and she was pronounced dead on Tuesday afternoon, August 9, 2011. The male victim was also taken to a hospital for treatment of non-life-threatening injuries.
The Prince George's County Police Department's Homicide Unit launched an investigation into the murder of Jasmine Banks. In the immediate aftermath of the shooting, authorities were actively working to identify a suspect or suspects and to determine a motive for the deadly assault. Detectives appealed to the public for any information that might lead to an arrest in the case. At the time of the initial reports, no arrests had been made and no suspects had been publicly identified. The investigation into the death of Jasmine Jerona Banks was ongoing.
