Friday, March 31, 2023

Is There a Rest of the Story to St. Paddy's Killing?

 The double homicide that took place on Jefferson Street as the St. Paddy's Day Parade rolled through downtown Jackson shocked the Jackson metro area.  

Capitol Police charged Florence plumber Jordan Cummins with the murder of Joshua Spann and Jubilee Simpkins.  Law enforcement sources said several people witnessed Cummins beating his girlfriend in their vehicle parked near the intersection of Jefferson and Amite Streets Saturday afternoon and tried to intervene. Cummins allegedly shot Spann, who was trying to stop the assault. A random bullet struck Simpkins, killing her as well.  

Cummins and his girlfriend fled the scene.  The Florence resident surrendered later that afternoon to Rankin County deputies.  He was transferred to the custody of the Capitol Police, who charged him with two counts of murder.   

The defendant made his initial appearance Monday before Hinds County Court Johnny McDaniels.  Cummins claimed he shot Spann in self-defense after Spann pulled a gun on him.  Judge McDaniels denied bond for the defendant.  

However, Cummins' girlfriend provided her version of Saturday's deadly events on social media: 


 

There is a video floating around that shows the aftermath of the shooting.   Yours truly does not have a copy of the video but managed to watch it Wednesday.  The video shows two trucks parked end to end on Jefferson Street. The giant slide is in the background.  The truck on the left is white and the truck on the right is black.  


 

Spann is standing between the two trucks, holding a pistol.  He suddenly stumbles and collapses onto the pavement.  A white male wearing a baseball cap checks out his fallen friend and grabs the handgun.  He walks back to the black truck and oh-so-nonchalantly stuffs the pistol into his waistband and covers it up with his shirt.  A slain Jubilee Simpkins lies in the bed of the black truck as people remove a child from the bed.  A group of Spann's friends chase Cummins and his girlfriend to their car.  The couple manages to get in the sedan and drive away as their pursuers beat on the vehicle.   Several text messages allege what took place during those horrible moments on Jefferson Street: 



 




Take the text messages for what they are worth.

 Witnesses said the white male who secured and hid the pistol was Stephen Porter.   Porter was convicted of robbery in 2008.  Rankin County Circuit Judge William Chapman sentenced him to serve 15 years in prison but suspended 10 years of the sentence.  Porter served his time and was on supervised probation for five years.  


 

The convicted felon did not stop at (allegedly) hiding the handgun but also took it upon himself to visit the home of Cummins' girlfriend.  He promised not to go to court and offered to help her if she needed anything. 



Kingfish note: Even if Cummins shot Spann in self-defense, Sunday's jail-house video hurts his cause. However, there is one question that goes a'begging.  How come a convicted felon who carries a pistol away from the crime scene is not arrested? Inquiring minds want to know. 


 


43 comments:

Anonymous said...

While he is not the most eloquent in the jail video I believe he states the law on self defense. “If you attack me I will respond in defense of myself”. If these individuals are attacking him and have a weapon then he has every right to fire his weapon.

Anonymous said...

Is this going to end up like the pawn shop owner murder where the guy JPD arrested ends up having the charges dropped after video came out?

Anonymous said...

Lawlessness pure Lawlessness in Jacktown. There is no real law in the United States. The law is just what the police want to enforce.

Anonymous said...

He may have the right to defend himself, but he does not have the right to shoot an innocent bystander.

Anonymous said...

More than 1 type of shell casing was found also. 8:52 There is a question of which gun shot the bullet that hit the innocent bystander.

Anonymous said...

Great work KF. Regardless of what happens, I think we can all agree that if KF hadn’t posted this then nobody would have heard this info from our so called local news reporters

Anonymous said...

I knew the whitewashing was coming. Well played Clay.

Anonymous said...

There's always more to the story.

Anonymous said...

Parents, yet another reason to not let your kids hang out with boys who drive squatted trucks with big dish bowl rims. I see two in one of these pictures.

Anonymous said...

self defense or not, he aint gonna get around killing the girl. so the moral of the story is, if you're gonna "defend yourself", train as a sniper not a gangster.

Anonymous said...

What a bunch of idiots!

Anonymous said...

I hope these degenerates are vaccinated and boosted.

Kingfish said...

Ok put Cummins and Spann aside for a moment. Why isn't Porter in jail? I count at least hree possible felonies.

Anonymous said...

The jailhouse video admits guilt. There goes any chance of receiving a reduced manslaughter charge.

Anonymous said...

I think he is going to need some “preparation H” in his near future.

Anonymous said...

9:30 the jailhouse video admits self defense. Listen to it again. “If you attack me I will shoot you”. That is self defense.

Anonymous said...

That context changes everything. Although, I don't necessarily believe her story that she wasn't beaten. It'd be interesting to know if she has any bruises. But that could only be found out though competent investigators and a functioning law enforcement, which Jackson doesn't really have.

Anonymous said...

jailhouse video showed a POS regardless

Anonymous said...

I wonder how many “unarmed” victims of lethal self-defense we armed at the time they were shot? Reminds me of how the left tried to portray the antifa guys in Kenosha as victims, when they were clearly armed and using weapons against Kyle Rittenhouse.

Anonymous said...

Whether or not 'she was being beaten' is somewhere between irrelevant and a separate matter altogether.

If two people advanced on this man, one or both carrying handguns and one or both drawing handguns, self-defense seems to rise to the top of the inquiry.

In any event, thank God one of Chokwe's sergeants will not be leading a proper investigation.

Anonymous said...

felon in possession of a firearm + evidence tampering + supervised release = back to prison.

He should be revoked, then prosecuted, just like the black guy at the reservoir who was recently indicted for disposing on the gun he used in a self-defense shooting.

This was a white guy in Jackson, so it will be interesting to watch these two cases play out, side by side. I suspect it will come down to competency of the police/DA/court, rather than race, but time will tell.

Anonymous said...

I do not understand how she says he doesn't know he killed an innocent bystander

when the video says (and I am paraphrasing)

"two dead, free me mane"

Kingfish said...

He's been off supervised release for several years

Anonymous said...

If he was in the act of causing harm to another (i.e. beating his girlfriend) and the deceased attempted to use force to protect the girlfriend from harm, as I believe the law allows, can Cummins claim self-defense in that situation? If an armed burglar breaks into my house and I confront him with a weapon, the burglar can’t legally shoot me and claim self-defense.

Anonymous said...

Why is judge Chapman giving dangerous felons "blessings" like this?

How about some truth in sentencing. Sick of this crap.

Anonymous said...

I did see quite a few Capitol police cars at the area of the yesterday evening, their blue lights on. They had Jefferson blocked to traffic. Don’t know why and don’t know how long they stayed

Anonymous said...

Even though he might get of with self defense his actions still caused a death of an innocent bystander. Manslaughter in that case is quite possible.

But, will the case get presented to the DA's office on time.

Anonymous said...

He never touched his girlfriend! She didn't have a mark on her from what I was told plus seen a photo of her the next day. Cummins had gashes on his face and you could clearly tell he had been hit more than one time in the photo right after he turned himself in. I also seen a post from a girl who was supposed to be with the crowd of guys she said that Cummins and his girlfriend were arguing but he didn't hit her at the parade and they had planned to follow Cummins to the car. The post got taken down. The police have video footage I know that for a fact I know someone who works for the security company that gave it to them. I was told you couldn't see the gun in the video footage but you see the trucks pull up on Cummins and his girlfriend who were switching seats in the car maybe when they were leaning over each other they thought he was hitting her. Also I wonder why they waited so long to charge him over 24hrs I thought. Also the video footage from the jail I have seen 3 of the videos its the same video but it cuts out the rest of the the stuff said and gets shorter in each one. I was told by a friend that it was a song by someone called NBA YOUNGBOY whatever that is. I love how WLBT always has to air news that they have not one fact about. They start so much drama in my opinion and notice that 12 and 16 channels didn't air none of the stuff WLBT did because they didn't know what happened and the police haven't said anything. I have been thinking that this is way more than what I was thinking and it certainly is. If the cops thought he was hitting the girl and she had anything on her to show that they would have charged him in the beginning. I think that it's a sad situation and one of these boys didn't like Cummins and wanted to beat him up and sadly a innocent person lost their life. I don't care what anyone says if multiple guys ran up and hit you for nothing and then pull a gun and pointed it at you... and you had your weapon in reach you would have shot too. If Cummins was firing in self defense the stray bullet hit the innocent person when he was firing to defend himself that's still self defense. They dont have an exception to the law that if you have to defend yourself and your a bad shot or someone is around and accidentally gets hit your not defending yourself all the sudden. That wouldn't make sense that's saying if you are in fear for your life only defend yourself if you know that nobody's around and you have a clear shot and wont miss if not you just die or go to prison. People are so quick to jump to conclusions and it's so sad really. I think that the boys who attacked him and had the innocent person in their vehicle should be charged for her murder and knew they had children and women in the vehicle. The text message says they pulled the gun to scare him. They did that knowing that he could possibly have a weapon and start shooting with a truck full of women and children behind you. Yeah they deserve to be held accountable if that's the case.

Hookah said...

Rankin wannabe wanksters

Anonymous said...

Actually 12:27, I think even in self defense you are responsible for knowing what is beyond your target, and can be held responsible for any shots that miss the target.

Anonymous said...

@12:27pm - Ok girlfriend. How about you remove yourself from your abuser so no more people are killed (including yourself)?

Anonymous said...

I love all of this "he said, she said".. I can tell you that the Parade had not yet started, so you can write that down. I also know that the one day left for downtown Jackson that was kid friendly is now scarred...And that bystander who lost her life.. was a person too. A daughter, a sister and its all senseless. Since when did fist fights become a reason to pull a gun. I am disgusted with all of this.. Judge McDaniel doesn't play, so we have that going for us.
Thank you KingFish, and @12:27, you better find some new friends.

Anonymous said...

How about these dang judges stop suspending sentences!! Let these dang criminals serve the sentences they received day-for-day!!

Anonymous said...

It's time for Jerry Springer to bring in all these hicks for a good segment of "Way Ull, wat I herd was...." and "Some feller down at the Sack and Suds works with a feller that saw a video that...."

This is why we don't allow hearsay.

Now, if we could please just not allow trailer trash and thugs to possess guns and cellphones or to reproduce.

Tater, can we just subdivide Rankin and create Hickistan County south of I 20 and have Hinds absorb it? They can get a working sewer plant out of it and we can get rid of this human effluent. Please.

Anonymous said...

Never let feelings get in the way of understanding that it is easy to beat someone to death. All it takes is getting knocked unconscious (especially easy if your head hits asphalt or concrete) and them getting on top and wailing on you.

Anonymous said...

Yah, too many strippers and Rankins involved in this to determine what really happened. Sad, but poor lifestyle choices were in play on both sides.

Anonymous said...

It's been hard to believe that this was the whole story from the beginning. It always has seemed to me like there was something that all these rumors didn't have. Normally the police have something to say which hasn't occurred yet. If it was as simple as a intervention on domestic violence and double murder they would have said that and charged him with both. However that's not the case. I thought from the beginning why didn't they charge him for hitting the girlfriend too? Videos dont lie like humans and tell their version of things. Did some of yall not read the post before you commented? Why if he was beating her did his friend need to take the gun? I think more charges need to happen. People always want to make drama out of rumors not facts and get mad when the truth shows continuing to believe the rumors. Wake up! Cummins apparently fired in self defense. Sadly the innocent person was hit. If we punish him for that the others who put her in the situation need to be punished too. It's more than just Cummins to blame. Just my opinion.

Anonymous said...

So many crimes never get solved because nobody saw nothin, nobody heard nothin, nobody remembers nothin, and no one talks.

In this (alleged) crime, NO ONE can keep their pie hole shut. EVERYONE is blabbing EVERYWHERE, and EVERYONE is recording it!

With that plus a white perp, 2 black victims, and a new DA that doesn't (yet) appear to be on the take.... I'm thinking the truth is gonna come out.

But it won't set everyone free...

Anonymous said...

Switching seats? I ask myself, “As an adult, how many times have I switched between the passenger and driver seat with another adult without opening a door and walking around the car?”

Anonymous said...

@ "Whether or not 'she was being beaten' is somewhere between irrelevant and a separate matter altogether.

If two people advanced on this man, one or both carrying handguns and one or both drawing handguns, self-defense seems to rise to the top of the inquiry."

No. IF (and it's a big IF), the perp was in the act of committing a violent crime at the time and someone was trying to stop him, he probably can't shoot them and call it self defense. That's like a robber shooting the cop who's trying to stop him and claiming it's self defense. He cannot be the criminal and the victim.

Anonymous said...

Wow

Anonymous said...

"Why if he was beating her did his friend need to take the gun?"

@6:00 - I've tried to make sense of that question but, alas, I have failed.

10:37 - Your theory includes 'probably' and 'that's like'. Did you really mean to advance it?

Anonymous said...

so now “self defense” includes shooting someone who tries to interrupt your committing a crime?

sick puppies.


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