- - Reality dating show contestant Jardyn 'Pee Wee' Walker dies at 23

Ryan ColemanJanuary 26, 2026 at 4:39 AM

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Jardyn Walker on 'Two Ways with Erica Mena'

Jardyn Walker, a former contestant on Erica Mena's reality dating series Two Ways with Erica Mena who went by the nickname "Pee Wee," was found shot to death in Missouri on Jan. 21.

The St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department laid out the sequence of events that led to the discovery of Walker's body in a Thursday news release, per PEOPLE.

Walker was reported missing on Jan. 20 after failing to meet his sister at an Amazon facility in Hazelwood, a northwestern suburb of the St. Louis Metropolitan area. She was to give her brother a ride home, but he never showed, according to a University City Police statement obtained by local news outlet KSDK.

The former reality star, who recently competed for a shot at love with Love & Hip Hop: New York and Atlanta alum Mena, was working as a delivery driver in the area. Hours after Walker's sister reported him missing, University City Police enlisted St. Louis Metro P.D. to aid in the investigation, which ultimately led them to an alley where a body was discovered in the early hours of Jan. 21.

Jardyn Walker/Instagram

Jardyn Walker

The individual was pronounced dead at the scene and later identified as Walker.

The SLMPD statement claimed that officers had already responded to a call reporting shots fired in that area late the night before, where they saw and followed a vehicle quickly fleeing the scene.

Officers eventually apprehended 27-year-old Jamaal Jones, who was allegedly traveling in the vehicle with a weapon. Jones was taken in, questioned, and arrested early on Jan. 21. He faces charges of first-degree murder, armed criminal action, and tampering with evidence, the SLMPD told PEOPLE.

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Premiering on the Zeus Network in Feb. 2025, Two Ways with Erica Mena featured 18 contestants divided into two groups — nine men and nine women — all competing for the attention of the reality star. Walker nearly made it to the finals, placing fourth overall.

Mena mourned the losses of both Walker and Saiveon Hopkins, whom she chose on the finale of Two Ways and who was killed in Sept. 2024, in a post shared to her Instagram on Sunday.

"You were both so young, so gifted, so full of dreams," she wrote over an AI-generated video of the men hugging. "The world failed you. Your lives were taken in ways that will never make sense, and you did not deserve that."

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