Parkwood Drive Double Homicide: Short Prison Sentence Ordered

JOLIET, IL — One of the defendants arrested following last April's shooting of four people inside a third-floor apartment unit in Joliet's 1100 block of Parkwood Drive has pleaded guilty to his crimes and received a short term sentence at the Illinois Department of Corrections.

Last week, Will County Circuit Judge Amy Bertani-Tomczak sentenced Jhakiren Pickens, a 21-year-old Lockport resident, to two years at the department of corrections and one year of mandatory supervised release. She gave him good time credit for the 283 days he has spent in the Will County Jail.

Joliet police had charged Pickens with three counts of home invasion and one count of criminal trespass to a residence.

Last week, as part of a plea bargain, Pickens pleaded guilty to criminal trespass to a residence.

His three home invasion charges were dropped under the deal.

"Defendant and three others arrived at apartment door at 1 a.m. and were denied entry by the occupants," the sentencing documents read. "All four stormed into the apartment. Two of the people, not the defendant, were armed with guns and proceeded to a back bedroom where a shootout occurred. Those two people, Treveal Barefield and Treshon Holland, were shot and killed in that back bedroom by occupants of the apartment.

"Defendant had left the apartment just prior to the shooting," documents filed by the Will County State's Attorney Office show.

Barefield, 18, was a Joliet resident.

Hollland, 24, lived in Naperville and Aurora.

Besides Pickens, 21-year-old Joliet resident Tenzell Terry remains in county lockup facing three counts of home invasion and one count of criminal trespass to a residence. Terry's bail is set at $1.5 million. He lives in the 1200 block of Cherry Hill Road, jail records show.

Last spring, authorities announced they were looking for two other men police called suspects, Michael Frazier and his brother Jeremiah Frazier, according to Crime Stoppers of Will County. Ten months later, no homicide charges have ever been filed in connection with the slayings of Holland and Barefield from the early morning hours of April 25, 2020.