Jaquan Jones

Jaquan Dakim Jones was a 21-year-old man from the Charleston/North Charleston area whose life touched family and neighbors in the Dorchester Manor community. Public records and local reporting identify him by full name and age at the time of his passing on March 11, 2017. Though formal tributes from a funeral home or family-published obituary were not located in the public record during this research, news coverage and official updates confirm that Jaquan spent his last weeks receiving care at Trident Regional/Trident Medical Center following injuries sustained in a February 21, 2017 shooting in the Dorchester Manor neighborhood.

Beyond the limited public facts, what endures is the knowledge that Jaquan was a young adult with a life cut far too short. At 21 he would have been part of everyday family rhythms — celebrations, friendships, and the ordinary hopes typical of someone at that stage of life. The community reporting around his death makes clear that his loss affected family and neighbors and led to grief and calls for answers from those who knew him.

Because there is no family-published obituary located that provides fuller personal details, this remembrance intentionally avoids speculation about his private life. Instead it honors the verified human truth: Jaquan was a young Black man from the Charleston area whose life mattered to his loved ones, and whose absence left a lasting impact on his community. If friends or family wish to add memories, photographs, or personal reflections to a memorial page, those contributions will help round out the portrait of Jaquan as the person he was beyond the brief public record.