Jackson Jambalaya

So tragic. Praying for the family

Terribly sad. We used to go swimming back there when we were kids.

Damn.

Appears to be a rite of passage around Brandon. For decades, kids have been trespassing on the old Marquette Cement property to fish and swim in the abandoned settlement ponds, hunt deer and turkeys and engage in typical teenager coming of age activities. Been going on a long time.

I know someone who was on the cadaver dog detail that found the body. Apparently the body of water itself is on public land but to get to it, you have to cross over some privately owned land. Not a huge detail in this horrible accident but a clarification just the same. There may also be some questions as to the time taken to report by the other two kids that were present. Praying for the best case scenario that they just panicked when he didn't come up and not something more shady or anything.

The family should sue Rankin County and Rankin First for failing to secure this property and for allowing this type of activity to continue for decades.

9:06 for the being what is wrong with America today win!

You are part of the problem. Tragedy happens, who can I sue? Shameful.

9:06am...is that you, Mama Justice!

Things like this started to happen when we started putting warning signs on everything.

@9:06 - The property is privately owned. If you insist on suing someone for a teenager's death caused by his own negligence, then you'll have to sue the property owners, not the state, county or town.

Condolences to the family. It was an unnecessary and preventable tragedy.

It is private property, fenced and has NO TRESPASSING signs. The boy trespassed to go swimming and paid the ultimate price. Condolences to his family.

9:06, I used to swim and fish out there in high school. Shortly thereafter, they put up gates and fences and no trespassing signs. Yeah, they totally are liable for the kids ignoring those and going around gates or breaking into private property.

Isn't this property now owned by Rankin County?

So here suing the owner amounts to suing yourself and your fellow taxpayers for a youth's bad decision to break the law and trespass in a dangerous location.

"Jumped from a height"? How about jumped from a cliff. Who other than Butch Lee says jumped from a height.

When we were kids, there was a spot we called , the Mexican diving place back there. Don’t remember how high a jump it was to the water, seems like 15-20 feet. Sad thing.

Mama Justice, there’s a name that says, “I’m not an ambulance chaser”. Do law schools promote these types of gimmick names?

There was not a "Cadaver dog detail" on scene of this incident.