CLEVELAND – Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Michael C. O’Malley announced that a Cuyahoga County jury has found Terrell Silver, 35, guilty of aggravated murder and murder among other charges for killing four individuals, including a woman who was five and a half months pregnant, in Cleveland in September 2019.

“Today’s conviction is a significant step in justice for Jazmyne Lawson, Aiyanna Quitman, Dejuan Damar Willis, and Christopher Monroe. This case took several years of hard work by law enforcement, and this demonstrates victims will not be forgotten in Cuyahoga County.”

Prosecutor Michael C. O’Malley

Sometime between September 7, 2019, and September 21, 2019, Terrell Silver approached the four victims, two females, Jazmyne Lawson, age 18, and Aiyanna Quitman, age 19, and two males, Dejuan Damar Willis, age 20, and Christopher Monroe, age 23, inside a residence near East 144th Street and Kinsman Road in Cleveland where they were staying at the time. Silver shot all four victims multiple times as they were lying down on two mattresses on the floor. Jazmyne Lawson was five and a half months pregnant. He then fled the scene.

On September 21, the Cleveland Division of Police (CDP) discovered the four victims’ decomposed bodies inside the residence.

The investigation was conducted by the Cleveland Homicide Initiative, which includes the CDP’s Homicide Unit, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and the Ohio Attorney General’s Bureau of Criminal Investigation, with assistance from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives, the Cuyahoga County Forensics Lab, and the Cuyahoga County Prosecutor’s Office’s Homicide Investigation Unit. The investigation utilized information initially gathered and additional investigative resources including DNA and gun tool mark evidence that linked Terrell Silver to the crime.

Terrell Silver was found guilty on the following charges:

  • Seven counts of Aggravated Murder
  • Four counts of Murder
  • Five counts of Felonious Assault
  • One count of Attempted Murder
  • One count of Aggravated Burglary

Terrell Silver was found guilty by a judge on the following charges:

  • Two counts of Having Weapons Under Disability

Terrell Silver will be sentenced at the Cuyahoga County Justice Center at a later date.