Update: JPD arrested Jonathan Hawkins and charged him with vehicular homicide and felony leaving the scene of an accident.
JPD issued the following statement.
Officers responded to the 5000 block of Clinton Boulevard where
they found an unresponsive black male suffering from severe injuries.
He was later pronounced deceased at the scene.
Officers were told that the victim was walking just off the roadway
when a vehicle appeared to veer off the road, striking the him.
Additional information gathered suggests that the act may have been
intentional, although a motive is not yet known. The
suspect vehicle, described as a tan or gold sedan occupied by several
males, was last observed fleeing east on Clinton Boulevard.
The victim has since been identified as 54 year-old, Keith Moore.
Anyone with information about this incident is urged to call Crime Stoppers at 601-355-TIPS(8477).
16 comments:
Does this count as #49 in the 2019 Jackson Murder Race?
When they can't get a gun, they use a car. I don't hear any demands from the anti-rights people to abolish cars.
When cars are outlawed, only outlaws will have cars.
Cars don’t kill people....
Apples and oranges. Guns are a huge problem in America and continue to enable senseless violence. Get’m off the streets of Jackson and homicide rates will plummet. #FACT
As WLBT announced last night " this accident may have Ben intentional." You've got to love our local TV news outlets!
6:37 pm A citizen has to have a driver's license and a license plate to drive a car. That makes it easier to identify the " murderer" . And, no one has ever argued that the blind or drunk or crazy or even too old, should drive a car!
@6:37 PM
Nice strawman. Automobiles are not designed specifically to be killing machines.
Assault weapons on the other hand are designed for killing as many people as efficiently as possible. Designed for fast reloading during warfare.
If you think you need to possess
Assault weapons designed for war to maintain your supremacy then you are too mentally ill to possess any guns.
So no guns = no crime?
Fucking idiots.
@8:23 then let's ban all automobiles that can exceed the maximum speed of 70mph. Now who is the strawman?
8:23
In 2018 there were 40,000+ deaths by automobile. In 2018 there were 14,600 deaths by guns.
Apparently automobiles are a much more efficient killing machine.
Islamic jihadists have mowed down quite a few people with trucks and cars. They see the superior killing ability of a large truck coupled with a crowd of innocent tourists.
If you think you need to possess your Prius to maintain your moral superiority then you are too mentally ill to possess any vehicle.
@8:22. Can you list the last murder in Mississippi, that was committed using an “assault weapon”?
Get’m off the streets of Jackson and homicide rates will plummet. #FACT
How do you propose "get'm off the streets"? BE SPECIFIC.
@9:09
I've heard it all. I've even heard gun nuts claim more people are killed by hammers than as salt rifles.
Your ranting doesn't contradict my claim that cars (and hammers) aren't made specifically for efficient killing while firearms are, in fact.
And I wouldn't be caught dead in a Toyota. I drive a Tesla.
No more assault weapons comments. Really? A post about someone killing a man by hitting him with a car brings on a full-fledged debate over assault weapons?
I have seen way too many people look directly into on coming traffic (that has a green light) and wade into traffic regardless. And this is on Gallatin street when turning onto Capitol street. I also saw an obviously mentally ill man standing in the middle of High Street and Larson Street having an animated conversation with nobody this past Friday during 5PM traffic. I also saw someone walking in the street headed west on High Street near the Woolfolk building when there was a serviceable sidewalk not five feet also during rush hour. So to hear of yet another person hit and killed does not surprise me. It would not surprise me to learn they were also mentally disturbed.
One Old Lawyer,
Looks like that information was straight from JPD, so let me edit your comment:
*You've got to love our local police departments!
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