Attorney General Jim Hood issued the following statement.
Credit: WAPT |
JACKSON – Attorney General Jim Hood announced today that a 25-year-old man from Jackson was convicted Thursday on three counts of murder.
Javondus
Beasley was convicted by a Hinds County Jury after a three-day trial on
one count of capital murder and two counts of second-degree murder.
Beasley
was convicted of intentionally shooting 29-year-old Eldra Gibson,
25-year-old Sherrod Brown, and 22-year-old Ashley Taylor, during the
late evening hours of October 30.
Beasley entered
the home on Moon Street in Jackson with the intention of robbing the
owner of the house then killed the owner and the other two victims that
were in the house at that time.
Judge Jeff Weill, Sr., scheduled a sentencing hearing for January 4 in Hinds County Circuit Court.
Beasley
faces a potential sentence of life without parole for the capital
murder conviction and up to 40 years in prison for each second-degree
murder convictions.
“I
appreciate Judge Weill and the Hinds County jury for bringing this
murderer to justice,” General Hood said. “We hope this brings the
victims’ families a bit of peace this Christmas.”
The
case was investigated by the Jackson Police Department with assistance
by Perry Tate of the Attorney General’s Public Integrity Division. The
case was prosecuted by Special Assistant Attorneys
General Jim Giddy and Marvin Sanders following the recusal of the Hinds
County District Attorney’s Office.
6 comments:
I'm glad someone is convicting the murderers in Jackson. Maybe the Hinds County DA should take note.
"General" Hood's Christmas wish is noted.
Three convictions only three weeks after the crimes?
Can we assign all trials to Judge Weill?
capitol murder charge..... why didn't hoods office seek a death penalty? simple, a hinds county first judicial district jury will not return one no matter what the guy did.
Quick death penality called for. State should not have to feed him for the next ten years.
The crime was in 2013.
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