Jackson Jambalaya

If he had been indicted and had not received a blessing, this would never had happened.

It's time to take out the trash.

What was the final homicide count for 2019 (understanding that the last 24 hours could bump the count higher)?

Kingfish Note, You must have been in the quiet part of town. I live in West Jackson and it sounded like the Tet Offensive from 10:00-2:00. Mostly Semi- Automatic gunfire.

The city needs to give out sandbags & sand to Jackson residents. Than Jackson taxpayers could stack sandbag on the walls in front of their house to stop errant bullets.

In 2018, we had 85 homicides (if I remember correctly). In 2019, it is 79 homicides. These are real people being murdered.

1. Jteira Myers, 24
2. Jeremy Eubank, 39
3. Geremiah Grant, 25
4. Daniel Brown, 21
5. Shadrach Simmons, 38
6. Calvin Cannady, 48
7. Jorge Velazquez Morales, 29
8. Jauan Tolbert, 19
9. Kishawnna Buckley, 18
10. Gerry Brown, 49
11. Jeffrey Gant, 39
12. Dontavius Cooper, 27
13. Antonio Lovaglio, 55
14. Anthony McGee, 29
15. Tyrell Aldridge, 18
16. Austin Moore, 23
17. Angelina Billingsley, 52
18. Anthony Epps, 46
19. Michael Anthony Hopson, 28
20. Illyannaii Dawson, 22
21. Nicholas Boykin, 26
22. Earnest Myers Jr., 29
23. Jurqwoine Cattenhead, 19
24. Michael Woods, 29
25. Earl Lee Clark, 63
26. DeShun Ferrell, 26
27. Ronnie Thompson, 30
28. Cedric Willis, 44
29. Renado Brady, 33
30. Maggie Jones, 19
31. Joe Dozier, 46
32. Keith Moore, 51
33. Ravonte Flowers, 27
34. Gary Lee, 34
35. Ru Minnieweather, 28
36. Jaleisa Everett, 16
37. Octavius Miller, 26
38. Jockeyus Wright, 17
39. Preston Tyler, 21
40. Chornell Mayfield, 25
41. Bob Ward, 34
42. Mario Ledbetter, 39
43. Adante Nelson, 25
44. Henry Williams, 34
45. LeMarcus Jenkins, 27
46. Nicole Newsome, 37
47. Linzell Giles, 22
48. Charles Watson, 33
49. Rodrick Johnson, 14
50. Varico Bush, 43
51. Greta Roundtree, 60
52. Emmanuel Fleming, 35
53. Celeste McDonald, 21
54. Walter Thompson Jr., 29
55. Eduardo Molina, 54
56. Airius Deonte Griffin, 27
57. Cedric Smith, 34
58. William Parker, 38
59. Kameron Pierson, 22
60. Dewan Fortner, 29
61. Kentrell Stewart, 34
62. Charles Ponthieux, 52
63. Mario Clark, 31
64. Erik Payton, 24
65. Varga McCray, 48
66. Mario Nichols, 44
67. Steve Willis, 32
68. Quinvarus Devon Parker, 20
69. George Robinson, 61
70. Kameron Virgil, 28
71. Elizahwon Burns, 34
72. Mack Pope, 59
73. Christopher Collins, 25
74. Calphrion Vardman, 19
75. Anthony Finch Longino, 62
76. Demarcus Harris, 32
77. DeAnthony Snell, 23
78. Julian Smith, 38
79. Evan Henry, 23

Source: https://www.wlbt.com/news/crime/jackson-homicides/

Paul,

We had 84 in 2018.

We have had 83 this year.

Not all of the individual articles are showing up. I'm trying to fix all of that now. My apologies for the confusion. Thank you for bringing that to my attention!

The actual map shows all 83 for this year, aside from the two or three where JPD did not release location information.

The odds of being murdered in. Jackson are 2.565 times as great as in Chicago. (490 in Chicago a city of 2,705,994} versus Jackson (84 in Jackson a city of 164,422).

This is the perfect exclamation point to what Hurst was saying: Jackson, you have a gun problem.

Thanks Paul ( and Kingfish) Keep publishing the names. People need to understand the depth of the tragic state of affairs in Jackson.
I wish the faces would be put on a billboard(s). Putting a face to the statistics is needed. Get ready - with a new Soros elected DA - crime stats likely will skyrocket.

3:20 Wrong. Growing up, everyone I knew had guns, and I never knew any of them to either shoot anyone or get shot themselves.

Jackson doesn't have a GUN problem it has a CULTURAL problem!

But yet they try to blame it on the thousands of us rednecks that’s have spent hours in the woods since thanksgiving with zero incident. It’s not a gun problem it’s a culture problem.

Jackson doesn’t have a gun problem, it has a culture problem. And it’s not getting better. Most people with the means to leave have left and their decency left town with them. Oh there are still lots of decent people in Jackson, but they’re outnumbered by the thugs and the thugs vote their own into office. It’s a death spiral that can’t be broken by a convention center hotel, a few more shops at the District, or a Farish Street project (even with a BB King blues club!).

The sad truth is what a couple of commenters above noted or alluded to. These 80-something deaths are people with families and friends and even futures. All gone. And for what?

I am very disappointed. Car-Jacktown didn't break 100. Slackers. We are depending on you for 2020.

@2:20, yeah right because criminals ALWAYS follow the laws. In hinds county chances are he would not have been held until his trial, so he would have ample opportunity to do thug shit.

Wait JPD & Mayor say they have it under control. Why does Stokes expect local businesses to put up reward money ? Does he stop the person robbing his home and say wait a minute let me give you some cash! Judges need stiffer sentences & quit catching and releasing CRIMINALS!

3:20, correction: Jackson has an ILLEGAL gun problem. Responsibly and lawfully armed citizens don't go around doing drive-bys and starting fights that end up in shootings; nope...most of us tend to be deferential to our fellow man and not let things get under our skin and understand that using our firearms is a last resort.

No, you have a damn cultural problem. But this comment won’t get posted because it’s the truth.

4:48 - Guns don't go around doing drive-bys and starting fights that end up in shootings. Please get off this 'gun problem' crap.

@ 3:31
That would be 16th Judicial District DA Scott Colom who leads the Mississippi Legislature Black Caucus.
He is the son of Columbus Tort Lawyer Wil Colom. Wil Colom is aka The Black Dickie Scruggs a nd has links to Haley Barbour.
DA Colom threatens to work towards releasing non-violent offenders from prison..turning Mississippi into a veritable Bastille-like prison release. The released prisoners may have been non-violent upon entering prison,but released with no jobs they will have no option but to return to what they do best.
But look for more home invasions.

Jackson is safe ???
Is that what some still believe ????

And to think . . . just a few hours ago some posters were commenting the daily Jackson shoot-outs are a "common" problem in the area.

(No. it's a Jackson thug culture problem).

No further further questions Your Honor.

Where is Hurst when you need him. The ones that do the killing get blessings from Green. She’s not even considered a dam judge. More a baphoon

Sounds like “The Purge” started in Jackson.

I get an average age of 23.2 years old for victims. Anyone want to deny this is related to lack of discipline in education. I know there are many reasons for kids gone bad, but damn, the solution would be to get their attention as first graders and demand that they behave so that maybe some good could sink in.

607, I think you missed the point of 448's post

Just saw where this poor ol' girl was shot and killed inside her house while she was in the bed.

We need a few SEAL and Ranger teams to visit Jackson for a few weeks and clean this shit up. Yea, I know about the posse comitatus act but, this has gotten way past serious.

Thanks C.J. for the correction. I appreciate the excellent work you are doing.

Mike Hurst said Jackson has a gun problem. I hope Mike corrects his erroneous statement.

Apparently, felon in possession of a firearm is not considered a real crime in Jackson. Presenting felons in possession to a Grand Jury seems like low-hanging fruit to me, and would be a good starting point. Cutting down on incarceration rates by refusing to pursue charges against those who repeatedly violate existing gun laws isn’t much of a solution, nor is simply passing more guns laws.

To paraphrase, as well as reference prior posts, I am shocked, shocked I tell you, that gambling is going on in this whorehouse...now where is that f'ing piano player? I want to hear Auld Lang Syne and have a julep, dammit! This is a perception of bullshit....lalalalalalalala (with fingers firmly in my...eyes...).

PS - say, there, Mayor Choppedpeas - when might we expect to move from perception and distractions to responsibility and actions? Rhetoricality assumed, of course.

I'm in a "good" neighborhood. New Year's Eve felt and sounded like Holy hell raining down. I have never in my life been in the middle of such insanity. It didn't let up for hours. The quarter-sized hole in a window pane facing the street, and the spent bullet that came to rest literally under the Christmas tree....well, that's it. Moved here in 1980; now leaving - no,fleeing - ASAP.

Is George Soros meddling in Mississippi elections?

https://images.app.goo.gL/YSKrQ5CMnBxM9AqPA

8:25 you are assuming the parents of these killers will back the teacher when discipline is needed...if there are parents who actually care

Paul Adams:
Can you tell us how many of those murders happened northeast of I-55 and Fortification?

And, I wonder also if KF and the person in the " good neighborhood" are slightly west of I-55 and were hearing west of N. State St. gun fire or is the " good neighborhood" north of Old Canton where it turns at Parham Bridges and not too far from apartments?

Can we have two maps? One with crimes and one with murders?

Parham bridges. The shots weren’t echoes or from a half mile or more away either.

Why do Jackson citizens want to live this way? Why do they keep voting into office incompetent mayors, council members, judges, and DAs? No, voting for change will not change the culture problem that exists in Jackson as the family unit has been all but destroyed by national politics, but it will send a message that the status quo will no longer be tolerated. My wife and I chose to live in Jackson to try to be a part of the solution; we see no hope that the majority in this City want to change and have sadly begun looking for properties in Madison.

People were mag dumping inside the Pearl City Limits on NYE as well as all day yesterday. I just hope the fools have sense enough to shoot into the ground instead of the sky.

Probably as much gunfire in the Jackson Metro over the last 3 days as at the US Embassy in Baghdad.

Even east of 55 I was wondering what was fireworks and what was gun shots. Mostly fireworks but occasionally I would hear what sounded like someone fiting off a magazine. The scanner did say there was shits shots fired off Old Canton.

I moved out of Jackson 4 years ago off of Ridgewood Rd. Took a beating on my house sale, But, happy to get out before I became a crime stat. The culture is the downfall of Jackson. If the culture of Jackson was more like the Amish you wouldn't here a single shot.

I must apologize for the previous illiterate sounding post (9:20 am) I am a dirty phone poster.

Guns aren’t considered a last resort to solve problems in Jackson, they are used as a first resort. So many times there isn’t even a problem, it’s just recreation and target practice.

"I get an average age of 23.2 years old for victims..."

Assuming your math is accurate (but regardless, it's accurate enough), you've hit upon the primary cause of the problem. Hear me out. I'd also surmise from the list that most of, or certainly a significant and disproportionate part of, these young victims were black and classified in a very similar and fairly narrow societal and economic cohort. Further, I would make an educated guess that the shooter(s)/murderer(s) were, in a vast majority, young black males of a similar cohort. I would make another educated guess that black and white men over the age of 30-40 own many more firearms (by a very significant margin) than young black males of 23.2 average years of age, with white men of 45 or older being the single largest group of firearms owners in the US by a wide, wide margin. About the only time anyone of any color gender over the age about 25 shoots another person, again of any color or gender, is for very specific and highly personal reasons and when compared to young black males of about 23.2 years of age and belonging to the aforementioned very narrow cohort, the numbers are very, very low.

So, where does this lead? "Gun violence" isn't a racial, gender, age, or number-of-guns issue, it's a young black male of about 23.2 years of age and in a certain cohort issue. And here's a take-this-to-the-bank, bet-yer-ass certainty: those young black males aren't going to turn in guns just because some law mandates they do so and they aren't going to stop shooting at each other because of laws, either. Until society of all races and skin color fixes the real, underlying issue, lists of mostly cohort members with names like Jurqwoine, DeShun, and Dontavious, who were shot by similar cohort members with similar names will be a yearly thing. And that folks is not merely a perception of anything.

It was like a war zone all over the state. I heard more shots than I could count in Madison County and heard the same from people all over the state. Literally made the kids go to an interior room all night. Really scary to have some many gun idiots playing involuntary Russian roulette with my family.

Just another day in Chokwe's utopia... Maybe he will wake up one day and see reality

Although agree with the 'cohort' at 10:20, that's verbose!

So.what happened in Jackson the last ten years?

Fondren is way hipper and cool now. Lots of commercial development.
District at Eastover...
I-55 (the east part)--new Petco, look at Highland Village...
Downtown-condos and two new museums
new childrens museum..

what about the west, south, north--eh...higher crime, less commercial business. and businesses located in those parts either shut down or move
the public schools continue to fail.
zoo?

so the real question is why? it's the lack of care. some residents of jackson care deeply and have made their part of Jackson better and more vibrant. it's also clear that some residents of jackson are deeply involved in crime and illegal activity. MOST jackson residents live in indifference. they don't really care about crime, education, quality of life...and vote accordingly. as long as they aren't getting shot, they just don't care.

can jackson turn around? absolutely. will it? seems as if that's already been answered.

@10:30 AM - Troll! If you were standing on the north sidewalk of E. County Line Road, sure, you would hear gunfire coming from Jackson.

If you were in the Madison the City, nope.

If you were out in the county near Flora, maybe, as that is very rural.

Go troll on the Rez.

How many remain unsolved?

And the award for best comment goes to:

January 1, 2020 at 2:34 PM

"I live in West Jackson and it sounded like the Tet Offensive".

Jackson doesn’t have a “cultural” problem it has an underground economy problem, which is driven mostly by poverty. Most of the victims are in their 20s. Young folks are more likely to commit violent crime and when you add in poverty it exacerbates the situation. The last thing we need is a bunch of self righteous clowns that voted for Tate Reeves and Donald Trump lecturing us about morality and cultural problems.

7:19, I may be self righteous, but I’m not a clown and I didn’t vote for Reeves or Trump. You readily acknowledge that the young people of Jackson are “more likely to commit violent crime,” yet in the next breath you tell us not to criticize it or call it out. That we should all just accept criminal violence among the young people of Jackson, as if it’s a perfectly normal part of growing up, is the epitome of a “culture problem.”

Idiots like 7:19 would go down with the Titanic before they'd admit there was a problem, just so they could keep their "progressive status" on Facebook....

7:19 study West BY-GOD Virginia. They are as poor as we are, and this shit ain't going on there. Of course, the demographics are flipped up there. The problem here is FATHERLESS households.....end of subject.