Background: The home where Jalen Whitlock was shot to death during her child’s birthday party (KHOU/YouTube). Inset: Jalin Foreman (Houston Police Department).
A Texas man is accused of shooting his ex in the face in front of their children after crashing a birthday party for one of the kids.
Jalin J. Foreman, 27, is charged with the murder of Jalen Whitlock, 25, Houston police announced Sunday. Whitlock died after being shot in the face in her home as she and her children were having a birthday party for her 6-year-old.
According to a criminal complaint, Foreman came to the door of the townhome where Whitlock lived shortly before 8:30 p.m. He was allegedly “trying to come to the house to give his daughter a birthday [gift], but [Whitlock] had told [Foreman] that he cannot come to the house.”
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Whitlock’s boyfriend of about a year is the one who answered the door, police say, and he and Foreman allegedly started arguing due to a prior incident in which Foreman had shot at Whitlock’s home.