A Chicago man shot and killed his girlfriend this week after she removed an Apple AirTag tracker he’d hidden in her car without her knowledge.
Armoni Henry, 21, was charged with first degree murder in the death of Jailene Flores, 21, on Thursday at a grocery store where she worked, WBBM reported. A judge ordered him held without bail.
Prosecutors told the court that Henry and Flores met in school and began dating and that they also worked together at a nursing home in Oak Lawn earlier this year.
But their relationship began to sour, and in April, Flores filed for an order of protection, which was granted. Deputies were never able to locate him and the order was not served, however, and it expired at the end of May.
Flores found the AirTag in her car on Monday. Her brother scanned the device and found that the last four phone number digits for it were the same as Henry’s phone number.
Henry followed Flores to work at Mariano’s grocery in Evergreen Park on Wednesday and confronted her about removing the AirTag from her car. He reportedly threatened to hurt her brother and father if she stopped talking with him.
Flores filed for a new order of protection the next day and received 124 messages from him over the removal of the AirTag. At 9 a.m., he arrived at the store and confronted her directly. Investigators said she took him to a back room in the store, and moments later gunfire rang out.
The store manager said he saw Henry run away. The manager chased him and saw him get in his car and drive off. Meanwhile, another employee had been in the backroom and witnessed the shooting. That employee and the manager identified Henry as the gunman, prosecutors said.
Chicago police tracked Henry via license plate readers and caught up with him shortly after 10 a.m. Prosecutors said he had a gun on him when he was arrested, and it matched shell casings found at the scene of the murder.
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[Featured image: Jailene Flores/Facebook and Armoni Henry/Cook County Detention Center]
