Jaequan Simmons was a 19-year-old Black male whose life ended on December 16, 2016, in Dallas County, Alabama, in a case that state officials later described as a fatal shooting. The clearest official account says he was found unconscious inside a vehicle at 1905 Kayser Street, in Selma, and died shortly afterward. What began as the discovery of an unresponsive young man quickly became a homicide investigation, with the circumstances pointing to someone having shot him before leaving him in the
vehicle.
The public record does not provide much detail about what Jaequan had been doing before he was found, who last saw him alive, or what investigators believed led up to the shooting. What is known is stark: by the time authorities were able to respond, he was unconscious, and he could not be saved. Funeral and memorial records identify him as Jaequan Lamar Simmons, born May 31, 1997, with his death recorded on December 16, 2016, in Selma. Services were later held at Keith High School Gymnasium, followed by burial at John the Baptist Church Cemetery in Orrville, Alabama.
More than a year after his death, Alabama Governor Kay Ivey issued a reward proclamation in March 2018, signaling that the investigation had not produced the break authorities needed. The proclamation stated that the murder remained unsolved and that there were no suspects. It offered a $5,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the person or people responsible, but only if no arrest had already been made in connection with the murder as of the date of the proclamation.
No reliable online source located in the search results reported an arrest, named a suspect, or described any charges, trial, plea, or conviction connected to Jaequan's killing. The available official information instead leaves the case in the posture it had reached by March 2018: an unresolved fatal shooting, a young victim found inside a vehicle on Kayser Street, and a state-backed reward meant to draw out someone with information about the perpetrator or perpetrators.
