Jeremy Fears Jr., an 18-year-old American college basketball player for the Michigan State Spartans, was shot near his hometown in Illinois. Born on April 19, 2005, in Chicago, Illinois, he is a point guard who stands at 6 ft 2 in (1.88 m) and weighs 190 lb (86 kg). He was a consensus four-star recruit and one of the top players in the 2023 class. Fears played high school basketball at Joliet West and La Lumiere School. He won the Illinois Gatorade Player of the Year award in 2023 and represented the United States national team at the FIBA Under-16 Americas Championship and the FIBA Under-17 Basketball World Cup.

Fears was a freshman guard who was ranked as the No. 1 recruit in Illinois by 24/7 Sports and On3 Sports. An overnight shooting in Joliet, Illinois, injured two people, including an 18-year-old man. The 18-year-old and a 19-year-old woman were shot at around 3:44 a.m. inside a home in the 300 block of St. Jude Avenue.

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The woman was shot in the pelvis, and the man sustained a gunshot wound to the thigh. A preliminary investigation revealed that both victims were inside the residence when a man armed with a gun entered through the front door and opened fire.

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