On October 3, 2024, at about 12:34 a.m. officers responded to a reported shooting on Laurel Loop in West Asheville and found 26-year-old Jaquan Devaughen Patrick Bowen with a gunshot wound to the head. Officers provided life-saving measures and Bowen was taken to Mission Hospital, where he died on October 4, 2024.

Police arrested 40-year-old Jessica Barnes Ferland at the scene. She was first charged with attempted first-degree murder and, after Bowen’s death, the charge was upgraded to first-degree murder; she is being held without bond in the Buncombe County Detention Facility. Authorities have not disclosed the nature of the relationship between Bowen and Ferland or a motive. This was the Asheville Police Department’s 10th homicide of 2024.

Anyone with information is asked to contact the Asheville Police Department at 828-252-1110, submit an anonymous tip via the TIP2APD app, or text TIP2APD to 847411. Is there anyone who may have seen activity on Laurel Loop that night or who can help fill in what happened?