Jackson Jambalaya

Mama always said nothing good happens after midnight.

I guess ABC and the Gaming Commission have better things to do than look into horse racing and drinking at an advertised event.

Just another day in the territory once known as Jackson

An innocent "trail ride" after midnight? Sounds fishy.

Let me guess…

So none of the surviving five victims are able to provide any information regarding who shot them?

Perhaps a 10:00 p.m. curfew for everyone under the age of 30 is the answer.

What is wrong with these folks? There is a serious talk to be had.

It’s a culture with 30 year old grandmothers and 45 year old great grandmothers. What sort of generational wisdom did you expect to be passed down?

A midnight "trail ride" next to the old drained and dry Lake Hico is actually a bizarre way to spend a Saturday night.
But hey, whatever the children like to do...

And while I am sorry some kids were shot, killed and wounded ...
I'm waiting to hear the public response (if any) from
Mayor Johnny Horhn and his Police Chief Dr. RaShall Brackney.

If only this venue was a designated "gun free zone" this would never had happened. Right?

Maybe the Dr. Chief could order her people to quit the shooting this would stop. Right?

I told my doctor that "no one listens to me,and he said Next". You can't make this stuff up fish.

I am positive that Dr. Chief is on top of this, at least when she returns from the Interpol conference in Paris.

Nothing will be done about any of this, none of the people in charge will be held accountable in any way for the murders and crime in the city. The record keeps playing over and over as usual.

Just got an email, saying that, per the Morning News, the Trail Ride was actually "an ATV trail ride". That makes a bit more sense. Interesting that it took so long for local media to include that bit, since the inclusion of 'ATV' paints an entirely different picture.

Were all of those 4-wheelers trailered there? They aren't legal on the street.

When I saw this headline, I expected unfortunate news about someone flipping an ATV while riding a trail in Smith County or something of that nature. Instead, a post-midnight "trail ride" in the middle of Jackson results in a shooting death. Interesting city y'all have there.

Never relax. IYKYK.

The shit that makes this place a shithole makes it interesting if you are into train wrecks. I just talked to a woman who saw the footage of the shooting at the laundromat on McWillie one evening two weeks ago. Young black male raising hell. Tossed off the Blue Sky premises, Enters the laundromat and starts arguing and hits a Latino. There's a fist fight. They separate. The black guy then shoots the Latino in the stomach. No one arrested yet.

If only shooting someone was illegal.

Who would have expected that? Are there no ordinances the city could enact that would require these promoters to have security and insurance. They are clearly doing this to rake in tax-free cash; they specify cash on the "invite."

All long as the peoples left in Jacktown do not hold leaders responsible for the safety of the city, the city will suffer with high crime.

Homicide rates for teenagers living in areas below the Federal Poverty Level are 18 times higher than for the rest of the population and 39,8% higher for Violent Victimization. ( source: our own government Bureau of Justice stats and worldwide stats on crime). It's like that in every state and city and country...poverty breeds crime!
Some of you need to look up income international statistics on income differences between the wealthiest and poor and what happens when the middle-class incomes disparity gets too wide. You might get a hint about how well our " little experiment in democracy" is actually doing instead of measuring success by market indexes alone.
We have enough sense to take an umbrella when the forecast has a high probability for rain, but not when the statistical formulas suggest a high probability of crime or disease. Math is just math folks and statistical formulas are really just math . And forecast accuracy it's based on centuries of data ( not just weathermen have access to decades and even hundreds of years of written records. But no doubt Bob the Barber and Sally at the Salon or Harvy at Hunting Camp are better sources!

10:15am
USA since LBJ has tried reducing poverty and associated crime with handout programs, to no avail. My observation is to avoid getting shot, do not attend events where the surrounding geography is known for violence and crime, regardless its cause.

This is the exact site proposed for the secret AL center. Currently a harness racing venue. Never knew about trail rides. Who trail rides at night. I wager you could place a bet on a horse race there.

Most of the people who live below the poverty level do so because of the choices they make. Their choices affect their children. Even children born into poverty have the chance to change their life but they have to work for it.

10:15, I thought people that murder other people all have mental disorders or the gun decided to kill, not the person. Now, poverty causes murder. I agree with 11:03, poverty is a result of choices people make. Example, I grew up poor, but I decided to do something different. Now, in a better financial position based on the choices I made. Poor people can change their trajectory but too many rather collect welfare than even try something else. We can blame all this on what we want but, at the end of day, most people are where they want to be.

I grew up in NW Jackson…just off Beasley Road in Norwood subdivision. It was Mayberry in the 60s and 70s. But we moved out in 75 as the invasion was starting.

Imagine you are the insurance agent when the organizer of this event calls with the bad news that there was a fatal shooting at the event...

You seriously believe the organizer was insured? ROFLMAO

Most important to consider, is that this was no innocent equestrian outing. It involved a midnight crowd and loud ATVs (and no-telling-what-else: probably blunts and vapes and booze and rapes and...). I don't see how the shootings made it any worse than it already was.