The Mississippi Department of Corrections issued the following press release.
MAN CONVICTED IN HIGH PROFILE 1994 JACKSON SLAYING DIES IN PRISON
JACKSON
– Inmate Robert Lindsey Jr., one of four persons convicted in the 1994
murder of a state assistant attorney general, has died in prison.
Lindsey, 40, died today, Thursday, Feb. 2, 2017, at 7:50 a.m. at the hospital at the Mississippi State Penitentiary at Parchman.
A cause of death is pending the results of an autopsy. No foul play is suspected.
Lindsey,
MDOC #R0862, was serving life for the slaying of then-Assistant
Attorney General Giles Bryant, who was fatally shot during a robbery in
Jackson on May 14, 1994.
Lindsey, convicted of homicide/murder, was sentenced on May 31, 1997, at the age of 20 in Hinds County.Note: One of his accomplices, Jason Lomax, somehow was sprung from prison and was killed committing a crime. WLBT reported in 2010:
Jason Lomax was shot and killed Monday morning after trying to pass a bad check at a bank, but he was no stranger to crime, or law enforcement officials in the metro area.
Lomax's criminal history started at a young age with a high profile case... the murder of former Assistant Attorney General Giles Bryant. Lomax was sentenced to prison for that crime, but many wonder what he is doing out of jail today.
Jason Lomax was only 13 years old in 1994, when he was arrested for murder. The victim, Assistant Attorney General Giles Bryant, was a close personal friend of then Attorney General Mike Moore.
Mike Moore says, "I'll never forget when I went down to the jail to see who actually killed Giles. I was presented with a 13 year old kid who looked like he was about eight years old and he was told you just killed a good friend of his an Assistant Attorney General. 'What do you say about that,' and he just kind of looked at me with some steel and cold eyes and just like his attitude was big deal."
Jason Lomax was convicted of that crime in 1997 when he pled to a lesser charge of manslaughter. He was sentenced to twenty years in prison with five years suspended and three years probation.
Moore says, "Today when I heard about it, the first question I had was, what was he doing out of jail?"
On top of that, Jackson police say they recently arrested Lomax.
Robert Graham says, "On September 14th he was arrested and charged with possession of cocaine."
Moore says, "If he was on parole and got arrested for cocaine, they should have revoked his parole."
Moore says Lomax had been arrested numerous times by police before 1994. His demise mirrored by the life of crime he had chosen, and one some predicted early on.
"I knew then that this young man was going to be trouble for a very long time," Moore said. "He was on his way to having something very tragic happen to him and I guess today it did."
WLBT attempted to contact the department of corrections to ask why Jason Lomax was out of jail. Our calls were never returned.
12 comments:
He checked out of Parchman and checked into hell. No need to pack a jacket.
Hope the POS is rotting in hell. Pursued him and a buddy for auto theft about 6 weeks before the murder but lost them in Presidential Hills. That bothers me now and again still.
I remember the day I learned of Giles's murder. I remember the sense of horror and frustration I felt that such a fine man and husband and father had been been so coldly and cruelly murdered. My wife worked with him. It was so cruel and horrible. May Giles go from strength to strength in Christ our Lord.
Hello Lucifer. Throw another log on the fire. We have a new guest arriving.
Each and every member of the Bryant family is special and very dear to me.
I am fortunate to have known Giles Bryant.
-Robert Williams
I didn't know who he was or what YANA was....I learned a lot that day....and what we lost.
Thing is...the area is 1000% more commercial now....and crime is way up.
Just yesterday 4 15 year olds mugged some people walking their dogs.....JPD caught them but damn.
Repeat after me, just so it won't go unnoticed:
"WLBT attempted to contact the department of corrections to ask why Jason Lomax was out of jail. Our calls were never returned."
Who was the Head-Dog at DOC then and who was his staff spokesperson?
Hopefully Mr. Bryant's family can finally have some peace.
Lomax was a devious little midget that knew how to manipulate people. I saw him up close for a few years. He would play on the sympathy of female guards that looked at him like a little crying baby. No sooner than they would turn their back he would be in a fight beating the heck out of another inmate twice his size. I wondered what ever happened to him. I guess he graduated from unit C4 to hell.
Lomax and Lindsey held myself and 3 friends at gunpoint the night before they killed Mr. Bryant. After taking our money and fleeing, we followed behind them in our car, and proceeded to call JPD on our bag phone. We provided a full description of the vehicle along with their tag number, along with the news that we were actively following the perpetrator's vehicle. JPD never attempted to send anyone to pick up on the chase, so we quit following them. The next night Mr. Bryant was murdered by them. Had JPD pursued our lead Mr. Bryant could still be alive to today.
Yup. Y'all went to JA. The robbery happened at Parham Bridges.
Jason Lomax was a dirtbag. He deserved to die.
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