JMoney’s Murder File: The Rhodes Avenue Shooting, The Laundry Trip, And The Lil B Theory

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The Case File Preview

Jerome “JMoney” Howard’s murder became one of the most discussed O’Block killings because the case sits directly in the middle of the early STL, EBT, and O’Block war that later exploded across drill music, Reddit threads, and internet gang documentaries.

But the full homicide file tells a much darker story than most people realize.

According to Chicago Police Department reports, Howard was killed on September 2, 2013 near 66th and Rhodes after arriving at a residence to help with laundry. Minutes later, witnesses described hearing a barrage of gunfire before Howard collapsed in the yard area bleeding from multiple gunshot wounds.

The Crime Scene

The reports describe detectives recovering large amounts of ballistic evidence from the scene, including multiple groups of expended 9mm shell casings, fired bullets, blood swabs, close-up crime scene photographs, and overall scene video documentation.

Witnesses described hearing rapid gunfire before seeing people running from the alley and yard areas near the residence.

The full archive breaks down how detectives reconstructed the shooting scene, the witness observations, the shell casing recovery pattern, and the movements investigators believed happened in the moments before and after the murder.

The Internet Theories

Years later, the case is still heavily debated online because of the theories surrounding Lil B from EBT, old tweet screenshots connected to the murder, and arguments over what parts of the homicide were street rumor versus what was actually documented in the reports.

The full case file goes deeper into the witness statements, the failed photo array identification, the O’Block and STL war context, the laundry trip detail, the crime scene evidence, and the online theories that turned JMoney’s death into one of the most replayed early drill-era murder discussions on the internet.

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