Jaquarius Davis

Jaquarius Davis was a 16-year-old youth of Chicago’s West Side, living in the Lawndale neighborhood where family, friends and community shaped daily life. In the neighborhood he called home, Jaquarius was known simply as a young person of his community — a teen whose everyday moments were spent among neighbors and friends on familiar blocks. On June 18, 2017, Jaquarius was struck by gunfire and was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital, where he was later pronounced dead. He was 16.

Public records and contemporary reports identify Jaquarius by name, age and neighborhood, and his death is recorded among other young Chicagoans whose lives ended in 2017. Beyond those core facts the public record available through widely published news accounts and memorial lists is limited: there is no family-published obituary located that provides fuller personal details, nor public records found that reliably supply a birth date or extended personal biography.

What is certain from the reliable sources is that Jaquarius was a real young person whose life mattered to family and community members who grieved him. Although the public record here is sparse, remembering Jaquarius means acknowledging a short life lived in a particular place and time, and the loss felt by those who knew him. For anyone who loved him, his memory endures in family recollections and in the quiet ways a young life shapes a neighborhood — in the presence left behind, the relationships with family and friends, and the small ordinary hopes and plans every teen holds.

If family members or close friends wish to provide additional, family-authorized details for a fuller memorial — memories of Jaquarius’s personality, school life, interests, or photographs — those first-hand remembrances can make an enduring tribute that honors his life beyond the limited public record.