Jackson Jambalaya

Another fine upstanding Cantonite.

Madison realtor here. Have gotten several calls from motivated individuals wanting to unload premium properties in the wake of this continual degradation of the area (Costco, now Bolt INS, now shooting). Cash buyers could get a steal. Get out now.

Will Highland Colony Parkway become the "new" County Line Road?

Ridgeland just caved to crime. It’s sad to see how quickly it went. And so close to such nice neighborhoods and malls.

6:06 quit trying to use this to line your pockets.

We seriously need the National Guard to come in and take over this war zone so we can live our lives in peace.
Our governor is too busy playing politics and suing other states.
Jackson Mayor is doing, well...NOTHING.
Canton Mayor is trying to figure out if he was elected or not.

Relator here: I've received several calls from people ready to move from Ridgeland! Get out!

The solution is a wall to keep the thugs out. Can’t anything nice around here

Wow.

Yo! Madison Realtor! Please tell us your contact information and any MLS listing numbers of available properties, cash in hand.

Based on live video of the evidence marking of shell casings on the pavement, the shooting took place between the roundabout on Old Agency Road and I-55, not Highland Colony Parkway. Close, but no cigar. Oh, 20+ casings being recovered.

As the perp's vehicle got onto I-55 southbound, he was likely seeking Jackistan's "safe haven" status.

Keep playing mind games, 6:06, while your own City of Jackson continues its long trip down the drain.

I'm not aware of the Natchez Trace intersecting with Highland Colony Parkway, Kingfish. Sorry if I missed the re-design.

Ridgeland has successfully moved North Jackson crime north of County Line Road. The new "M" bar location has now been established. Excellent work by Mayor Gene pandering to his cronies. If you want to see police west of I-55 you have to ask for them. Just ask the residents of one subdivision west of this crime scene.

Lookit all them unmarked vehicles, mostly bein' new SUVs. But, all they do is show up with blue lights after 'altercations that might lead to a succummin'. Total waste of money. I likes the red one. Looks like he's comin' from church.

That’s what RPD told me. Take it up with them.

Victim from Canton, but shooter is from Jackistan (from RPD detective).

The Natchez Trace passes over Highland Colony but does not intersect it. Just north of walk ons and just south of the roundabout.

@6:47 The Trace crosses over Highland Colony just south of the roundabout. Post didn’t say anything about intersecting.

That you Geno?

Highland Colony will be the next county line. Look at Renaissance Mall. It’s half vacant.

Looks like the Bridgewater plaintiffs were correct in their worry about the urban growth....and thus the Costco lawsuit. Which they won, but mayor wigglewaggled around it.

Ridgelanders, its time to vote out Mayor McGee as he's sold out for the cash. Next in line is more apartments...thus more crime.

Enough is enough.

There are times of day where I absolutely HATE driving Lakeland Drive. On the other hand, times of bad traffic are easily offset by our having limited connections with that absolute shithole of a city - my hometown - Jackson, MS As long as I've been alive, the "cultural wave" has been spreading north and east, but that bottleneck over the Pearl sure has slowed the progression vs. how fast it's moving north! Hell, Ridgeland and Madison are getting pinched from north AND south!

And this is the reason the surrounding neighborhoods opposed Costco. Not so much Costco, but the businesses that come with it. The clientele of walk ons, etc. They can now say “I told you so”, and they will be correct.

Fightin over the last two damn wings on the platter and whether or not Henry Ruggs III should be put in jail. Good arguments, but should’ve brought loaded the dummy rounds. Jacktownian or Alec Baldwin shall roam again.

The Natchez Trace crosses over (intersects) Highland Colony, between roundabout and Costco.

6:47, watch the video, bonehead.

Plate Body Armor should be worn at all times in the metro to protect against cultural enrichment.

Wow, Madison county is so dangerous now! Where can we move to get away from all of this? It is PAST TIME for the Ridgeland and Madison to start pulling over EVERYONE with Hinds county plates and asking why they are in Madison County.

KF & @6:47
On Highland Colony Parkway between Old Agency Parkway and just south of the traffic circle you pass under a concrete rainbow... that is the Natchez Trace overpass. The two roads intersect (cross or pass over) but no intersection (common point at an intersect).
Forget about the shooting, let's save the English language.
For everyone else get a bigger stick or a faster car.

6:33 the National guard should not be called in. The job is for local law enforcement a d courts. Don’t elect democrats

I'm one of 49 siblings and we are all real estate brokers in every state but Mississippi. The youngest of our family is 77 and has been in the real estate game for 78 years. I did a survey. Not a single one of us has ever received a call from anyone in our respective states who asked us about buying a home in Mississippi.

My sister in Pennsylvania did receive a call from someone who was willing to trade what he said was "a mansion" for the phone number of a "shurnuf real Philadelphia lawyer," something about a problem with the law and timber, but other than that, apparently Mississippi just isn't a destination state. Can't imagine why.

From reading JJ, it sounds like there are probably at least a couple of cities that would be much more in-demand and desirable than a zero-lot-line almost-stucco McMansion in Somalia. For example, Tuscaloosa and Chattanooga sound like they have some really beautiful, safe areas. Tuscaloosa - that's where Old Mississippi is located, right?

6:06 is so full of shit. No realtor would be posting get out now.

The nimbys were right again

It all started with that giant tall building that was spot zoned. All hell broke loose from the karma spirits after the aldermen sold their soul.

@8:15 pm, look around, Jackson has already moved east on Lakeland Dr. I was considering moving from Hinds Co. and as I was driving through neighborhoods I quickly realized I was too late. Jacksonians have already moved in. Now I am looking towards Pisgah and further southeast in Rankin Co.

The Shootout at the Ridgeland Roundabout. Has a nice movie style ring to it. Waiting on the sequel now.

8:02 Vacant? Hardly! Have you even been to Renaissance? I was there TODAY and saw new stores!

Thanks Gene Magee for turning Highland Colony into another County Line Road!

Boulevard of Broken Dreams to the Field of Dreams. If you build it, they will come. And this surprises you how?

Speaking of bridgewater, it got so bad, for the first time in their HISTORY, a PF Changs location closed.

ditto's with 9:50, need a camera on the roundabout, keep doing the circle and popping caps then head winner heads for I55 and sanctuary in Jackson. Stolen SUV's of course.
I left Ridgeland in 2008, County line degraded and moved to Lake Harbour.

We all know the headline is wrong and we all know where the Trace and Roundabout (not mentioned) and Highland Colony are. For the sake of clarity, maybe it should just be said that the shooting took place about 3.8 miles northwest of the Valero at School Street and 51.

"Shooting on Highland Colony Parkway"
"A shooting took place on Highland Colony Parkway between Walk – On's and the Natchez Trace Parkway."

Nothing about these two headline sentences is accurate in any respect. Period.

How about: "Jackson thugs fire multiple rounds at Canton resident leaving Old Agency, exiting onto 55 east of the Roundabout"....

Talk to some of the store owners at Renaissance. Jackson residents coming over and committing petty shoplifting or trying to walk out on their tab is a daily occurrence. It’s starting to occur in Madison too, by the same demographic of course. The only solution is to build a wall around Jackson and shoot all who try to cross.

Ignoring poverty, educational opportunities, and apathy have led us to what we now have. When your only hope of a commercially viable life is a gang, things like this happen. It’s not just Jackson. Homeless or steal/sell drugs and have a roof?

So affordable housing is essential- how else can a Walk-Ons fry cook live near the restaurant? Where do you think the workers of retail/fast food live? Gated communities? Nah- they live in the bad part of town and tell their friends how busy WalkOns is and so gang member friends case the joint.

Best to lock and load. Even in Madison County.

@655 pm-you are right. I’ve never seen so many unmarked SUVs and F150 pickups. I was in the area and it looked like a kicked yellow jacket nest..instead of complaining I’m happy that we have so many cops unmarked around to ward off the Jackson buggers . Maybe if the truck thieves in Jackson saw all of those unmarked vehicles they would think twice about coming to Madison County.I live within a mile of the roundabout and really like the quality development in the area and appreciate the leadership of Mayor Magee and the aldermen.

@4:19am - It was bound to happen. Mississippi is too unsophisticated to support a PF Changs.

Attn 4 19 P F Chang’s closed because their food was no good.

4:19 Before making such sweeping statements do a little research. PF Changs has closed stores in several locations around the country - Ridgeland is not the first - and based on the my last visit a few months before closing, it was warranted - food quality was very poor.

@7:53 AM..no sophistication required to to detect crappy food and awful service.

Echo 7:29am.
Magee and company have transformed Ridgeland in a positive way, gradually over many years. He gets "Mayoring" down straight.

The little Emperor With No Clothes, to Magee's South, should be schooled, but can't because he plays New Africa, Most Radical City, begging for federal bailouts, micromanaging triple sized crayola trash cans, subverting bidding process and corrupting best practices.

That’s it I’ve had enough. I’m moving to Enid, MS where they know how to run a real city.

@7:53 - PF Changs sucks

Hopefully Walk Ons is required to post several cops in their parking lot at all times like the m club on county line was and maybe add metal detectors at the door. The mayor never should have approved a bar that close to residential areas. This is on Gene.

P.F. Chang's closed because the food was completely unreliable and people stopped going there. Blame that on lazy employees. Quite often the food tasted burned. Pretty sure the useless cooks were not cleaning the woks very often.

ENUFF ALREADY! I can't believe so many people raving as if that part of Madison County has become a ghetto cesspool. Get a grip! It wasn't in a residential neighborhood or a commercial business. It was on the highway.
A highway. Did you think these thugs were always on foot? They have cars too. It's inevitable that they will occasionally cross city or county lines as they conduct their running gun battles. Get a grip.

The first time I went to PF Change the food was fair; the second time it was the usual overcooked, salty, greasy mush every other Chinese restaurant in the area serves--all at Renaisaance prices rather than "hood" prices. THERE WAS NO THIRD VISIT AND WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN HAD THEY STAYED OPEN.

@7:29am & 8:51am - Thanks for stopping by Mayor.

Reasons "Jackson bad, muv frum Jackson" don't work. The crime spills out, you can't just run from it we have to deal with the shit storm that is Jackson. I realize this is Canton related but same logic follows. We can't run from the issues we need to hit them head on, move people into the areas & vote out corruption

Only here can a discussion morph from gun play to PF Changs. Focus people.

@9:32

Somewhat sensible, but the ones already there have to also want change. Too many in Jackson are basically nihilists, because they have never had anything and struggle to get anything. So they resort to this third world existence for survival. The cycle needs to be broken, and it has to happen one household at a time. Some will be lost, but eventually it can be turned. We all have to be willing to try though.

If the victim had been armed and already shooting at the shooter then he would be fine:

Need more guns actually shooting not just more guns.

PF Changs is to Chinese food as Olive Garden is to Italian food.

One ray of sunshine is that the thug(s) will not get a blessing, or a poem, in Madison County.

Costco, Sam's Club, and the rest of the shops in the Renaissance area are a huge draw for Jacksonians, because there's nothing like it left in the city limits. Can't blame the mayor for wanting to increase the sales tax revenue, but part of it must go to increased policing to go with it. Otherwise, yes -- you have another potential County Line scenario.

The recent crime in Ridgeland is such a pity. There used to be such nice neighborhoods like Bridgewater and Greenwood Plantation (I am not a racist despite typing the word “plantation”). I wonder if Costco brought on the early demise. What can be done to change this? At least the nearby mall is holding up

@11:35 AM - no, but you are a "woke" tool of the left.

OLIVE GARDEN SALAD IS DELICIOUS!!!! Ridgeland will be fine. We have GREAT leadership here. Unlike Jackson, we elect competent people.

Too bad the city just spent $16 million on the new city hall. Seems the mayors office and Cadillac Escalade was more important than the residents’ safety.

How competent will your leaders be as your population changes over the years? It happened to Jackson. Ridgeland and adjacent communities are next. In 15 years, we will be saying the same about Ridgeland, Clinton, and possibly Brandon.

It was not random but revenge

Ridgelands sole purpose is to be a buffer from Jackson for Madison. The population is majority renters. Once you have a candidate that caters to that demographic ridgeland is toast.

@ 12:13 PM -- I disagree. 30 years ago, Clinton was a nice bedroom community and it still is. Meanwhile, West Jackson was a ghetto then and it still is. Both are in Hinds County, so what's the difference? City Management.

Seems to be a popular stretch for interstate shootouts, the second one this year?

@12:23 PM You are full of poop like a Thanksgiving goose. Ridgeland is not majority renters. BS flag!!!

I suppose if these thugs had driven the full circuit from Jackson to Tupelo
shooting along the way it would be time to run up the white flag and abandon ALL of central Mississippi. Get serious. It was still an isolated incident that happened on the highway. Ridgeland and Madison are NOT war zones.

Um, Ridgeland was 54% renters in 2010 census

I moved to Ridgeland from Jackson 16 years ago, after being victimized by burglars twice. The area was nice, peaceful, clean, and there was high police visibility. I felt safe. However, over the past few years, there have been negative changes. Liter is everywhere, and County Line Road is looking more and more like Highway 80. Many people moving from Jackson to escape crime are renters, and have brought their Jackson behavior and friends with them. Rather than leadership being proactive in an effort to stem the evolving decay, e.g increased police patrols, crack downs on litterers, residential code enforcement in neighborhoods without covenants, strategic commercial zoning, the response appears to be to allow more businesses that are likely to cater to an undesirable element; cede to the negative forces, and keep moving north, with the goal of increasing the tax base. Criminals have cars (sometimes stolen ones) and they follow the money. Jackson crime is spilling over! Ridgeland, Madison, Gluckstadt ...in the words of Barbie Five ---"Nip it, nip it"!

@12:14 PM
Do you have knowledge that hasn't been released to the press?

Crime spills out, no one is safe so we must all band together to save Jackson.

How exactly do these people propose the suburbs remove incompetent leaders, and make the judicial arm of the law wake up?

Is there anything else you’d like us to do to save you from the nightmare you created?

Oh for Pete's sake Andy, do you see what texting on a phone has done to my name and legacy?! Barbie Five?! Really?!

3:01 Mea culpa! Barnie Fife. Kudos for targeting the imperfect and essential.

"@12:14 PM
Do you have knowledge that hasn't been released to the press?" Yes, he is right. Canton connection is a well known shooter.

For whatever it’s worth, contrary to one of the above posts, It was Greenwood Plantation (actually a few residents of GP), not Bridgewater, who opposed Costco. As for crime, Bridgewater and Greenwood Plantation remain free of any serious crime. Gates help, as do watchful neighbors and RPD. I used to believe Madison and Ridgeland police were a little heavy-handed, but given what is going on crime-wise in Northeast Jackson and Belhaven where I grew up and the fact that it will spread north unless checked, I appreciate what our police do. They put their lives on the line regularly to keep the thugs from taking hold in Ridgeland and Madison. I love that the response to the shooting near Highland Colony yesterday was a show of strength by the police. We also have vigilant judges, like Circuit Judge Arthur, who seem determined to deal forcefully with those who would bring crime to our area. We will be ok. Jackson will be fine too if it will elect leaders who ditch racial ideology and begin solving problems. There are blacks and whites of good will who do not support the Jackson mayor’s failed policies. Given Jackson’s racial demography, it needs a strong, conservative black mayor who can transcend petty racial grievance and work to solve problems.

Just like kudzu and fire ants .

Gene drives an Escalade (even to football games). Mary drives a beater truck.

Ridgeland has 55% renter population. Madison has 4%.

Ridgeland has pay-day loan and cash for titles. Madison has none.

You can open a vaping or palm reading shop in Ridgeland. Not in Madison.

Madison has zero storage buildings. Ridgeland recruits them.

Ridgeland cops are 'dicks on wheels'. Madison cops are respectful.

Ridgeland is the apartment capital of Miss. Madison has not one.

You can't safely shop or see a movie in Ridgeland. Try Madison.

Crimes occur regularly at Ridgeland hotels. None of that in Madison.

The mayor of Ridgeland wears Spandex britches. Madison's mayor knows better.

Regarding all the comments about renters... it's very true that they, or more specifically their children, frequently destroy the houses they rent, and the neighborhood follows. Apartment buildings become filled with gang members. Renting is not the problem, it's the landlords. There are good reasons to rent: young singles, young professionals needed in the city for their skills such as medicine but who haven't yet decided to stay in Mississippi, and elderly retired who can't maintain their houses and yards any longer, just to name three. If property owners refused to rent to HUD/Section 8 tenants OR screened applicants very carefully and kicked them out when they break the rules, there would not be such a problem. But they tend to be greedy and will rent to anyone rather than let an apartment sit for a month until a good tenant shows up. I wish there was an organization of people who would ban together and attract civilized people to move to these dying cities. I am truly sorry that gentrification pushes poor people out of their neighborhoods, but what is the alternative? They're trapped inside their houses as we speak, being shot by stray or targeted bullets.

Does anyone know why the Natchez Trace and Walk On’s were shooting at each other? Lots of unanswered questions.

7:47-Go to Walk On's and take a look at the vast majority of clientele. That should answer any questions you may have, Remember the owner of the Outback going live and saying why he is closing up shop??? Walk On's ain't far behind!!!

8:11 One shooter from Canton, the other from Jackson. Turf war.

2:48 AM...
Are you writing from anywhere on this continent? Are you writing from anywhere in this HEMISPHERE? You are obviously not familiar with Mississippi. Are you an investor on the other side of the globe, who thinks his "progressive management style" is going to transform apartment complexes he's bought at distressed prices? If so, then welcome to Waterloo, little Napoleon!

Gentrification? There is no gentrification happening in or near Jackson. And, if there were any "gentrification" pushing "poor people" out of their homes, they could just move from one near-empty neighborhood to another.

In fact, I have to wonder whether you actually know what 'Gentrification' means.