Police need help solving mother of four’s slaying
Early on April 22, 2015, Jerri M. Glenn shuffled her two daughters into her car to take the girls to school.
But the mother of four never left her parking spot outside her Far East Side town home.
At 6:45 a.m., someone walked up to the driver’s side of the car and fatally shot the 34-year-old woman.
The case remains unsolved more than two years later and is the Crime Stoppers’ Crime of the Week. Columbus police say they hope someone comes forward with information that could lead to an arrest.
Glenn’s son, Ni’shawn Glenn-Coulverson, a James & Livingston Hot Boys gang member, was wanted in a March 20, 2015, homicide after he shot into a car and killed Esak Gemeraw on Chatterton Road, police say.
Glenn was shot a month later on Winter Lane Park at the Park Trails complex. Police say it’s likely that she was killed in retaliation.
“There’s no concrete evidence that they are (connected), but that’s been the belief all along,” said homicide detective Anne Pennington. “It’s just totally senseless. There’s nothing Jerri did to warrant what happened to her.”
When GlennCoulverson was arrested, Pennington went to him in hopes he would help solve his mother’s case.
“He claims he doesn’t have any information that would help us,” she said.
A jury convicted GlennCoulverson in March 2016 of murder and two counts of felonious assault in Gemeraw’s death. Jurors also found him guilty of one gang specification and three gun specifications. He was sentenced to life in prison with no chance of parole for 35 years.
Jerri Glenn’s sister, Tamika Glenn, 38, said she thinks about how her late sister would have treated him.
“When he was wrong, she would tell him he was wrong,” she said. But his actions — even ones that hurt or disappointed — never would have changed her love for him, she said.
Jerri Glenn was also shot in 2011 while she was in a car, picking up someone at the Dream Lounge on Allegheny Avenue. One of the bullets struck her upper right thigh resulting in painful nerve damage.
“She was very outgoing,” Tamika Glenn said. After the 2011 shooting, she didn’t take anything for granted and felt, “You live to smile another day.”
One of Jerri Glenn’s daughters recently graduated from high school and will go to college. Tamika Glenn said she misses talking to her sister on the phone and sharing her day.
She said the family still waits for the day an arrest will be made.
“There’s always going to be a lot of anger and resentment,” Tamika Glenn said.
Pennington said she’s hopeful someone who saw something will call Crime Stoppers.
“There’s always someone who knows something. It’s just when it benefits them to come forward,” she said.
The gunman is described as a man wearing a black hoodie sweatshirt and a ski mask.
Crime Stoppers is offering a cash reward to anyone who might have information leading to the arrest or indictment of the suspect. Anyone with information can call 614461-TIPS (8477) or submit a tip online at stopcrime.org. Tipsters remain anonymous.