Jacob S. Blake Jr. is an American man from Cook County, Illinois, United States. He loves architecture, music and sports.

At around 5:00 p.m. on August 23, 2020, Blake was shot in Kenosha, Kenosha County, Wisconsin, United States by Kenosha Police Department officer Rusten Sheskey. The latter was placed on administrative leave immediately after the shooting.

Blake was trying to break an altercation between two women outside a residence in Kenosha when the Kenosha cops arrived. They wanted to talk to him but he was not interested.

When Blake was putting his children in a vehicle and was preparing to leave, he was shot by Sheskey at least seven times at close range. A video of the incident was recorded by an eyewitness named Raysean White, then 22.

Around 15 minutes before the shooting, Blake was barbecuing with his children, according to his neighbor Chyna Smith. He was not struggling at all and was just getting into his car when he was shot by the Kenosha cops, a woman, then 80, who witnessed the shooting told the Chicago Sun Times.

Blake’s grandfather Reverend Jacob Blake became pastor of Ebenezer AME Church in Evanston, Cook County in 1967 and died in 1976. The grandfather helped organize Evanston residents who supported a local comprehensive housing law after the death of Martin Luther King Jr. in 1968.

Raised in Evanston, Jacob Jr. attended Evanston Township High School where he played football and basketball. He and National Basketball Association agent Daniel Poneman went to school together from kindergarten to high school.

Jacob Jr. is Justin Blake‘s nephew. In an interview with Chicago Tribune, Justin described Jacob Jr. as a polite, perky and “lively young man” who “loves people” and said they volunteered together at Black Urban Recycling, an organization collecting and recycling aluminum cans to raise funds for a community center in Englewood, Chicago, Illinois.

From Evanston, Jacob Jr. moved to Kenosha for a job. Here are 13 more things about him:

1. He has six children.
2. He and Laquisha Booker have children together.
3. In 2012, Booker gave birth to their first child.
4. In 2015, Booker gave birth to their second child. In the same year, he was charged with resisting arrest and carrying a concealed weapon after pulled a gun at a bar in Racine, Racine County, Wisconsin.
5. In 2017, Booker gave birth to their third child.
6. On July 6, 2020, he was charged with criminal trespass to dwelling, third-degree sexual assault and disorderly conduct in connection with domestic abuse.
7. After being shot on August 23, 2020, he was transported via Flight for Life to Froedtert Hospital in Wauwatosa, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin. After the shooting, his mother Julia Y. Jackson organized a GoFundMe fundraiser, which received almost $500,000 in just 12 hours.
8. While engaged to him, Booker referred to Kenosha cops in an interview with WMTJ-TV on August 24, 2020. She said, “You shot him numerous times for no reason. It didn’t take all that. (You also did) disregard that my kids were in the car at all and you knew they were in there because I kept screaming that.”
9. On August 25, 2020, his father Jacob S. Blake Jr. announced that he was paralyzed from the waist down.
10. In March 2021, he filed a civil rights lawsuit alleging that Sheskey had used excessive force on him.
11. On May 9, 2022, U.S. District Judge J.P. Stadtmueller dismissed the lawsuit he filed in March 2021 against Sheskey.
12. On August 23, 2023, he filed in Milwaukee, Milwaukee County a federal civil rights lawsuit against the city of Kenosha, Sheskey and four other Kenosha Police Department officers including Vincent Arenas and Brittany Meronek.
13. He was 32 years old when submitted on September 8, 2023 a notice to voluntary dismiss the complaint he filed on August 23, 2023.

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