In Chicago's Jefferson Park on the afternoon of November 2, 2018, Khalid Al-Jaber, a 42-year-old male, arrived on the 4700 block of North Linder during what police described as a domestic incident.
At about 1:10 p.m., according to authorities and the Cook County medical examiner, he shot 30-year-old Huda Al-Jaburi in the head, then turned the gun on himself.
Al-Jaburi was pronounced dead at the scene; Al-Jaber, taken from the Northwest Side location in critical condition, later died at
the hospital.
Autopsies found that Al-Jaburi died from multiple gunshot wounds and that Al-Jaber died of a single gunshot wound to the chest.
Investigators immediately treated the case as a murder-suicide.
The setting was residential and familiar to the victim and shooter alike. Records place Al-Jaburi as living on the same block where the shooting occurred, while Al-Jaber was listed as residing in West Rogers Park.
Neighbors saw emergency vehicles converge as detectives from CPD's Area North began piecing together the final minutes of a relationship that had ended in gunfire. Confirmation of the sequence, first the fatal attack on the 30-year-old woman, then the self-inflicted shot, came through police statements and the medical examiner's findings released in the days that followed.
No arrests followed. There were no outstanding suspects. Authorities classified the event as a murder-suicide, with Al-Jaber identified as the sole assailant and also one of the deceased.
Independent compilations of gun violence incidents and memorial pages recorded his death the same day, reflecting his age, gender, and the Chicago location, further underscoring that the case did not involve a search for additional perpetrators.
The timeline and conclusions remained consistent across official and secondary public sources: a domestic encounter in Jefferson Park turned lethal, a 30-year-old woman was killed, and the 42-year-old male who shot her died by suicide.
With the medical examiner's determinations and the police classification in hand, the file settled into the city's grim ledger of 2018 homicides as a closed murder-suicide, leaving no continuing manhunt and no courtroom chapter to come.
