Madison-Rankin District Attorney Bubba Bramlett issued the following statement.
Madison and Rankin Counties’ District Attorney Bubba Bramlett announced today that Jordan Leah Sullivan, 33, of Louisville Mississippi pled guilty to one count Aggravated DUI in Madison County Circuit Court. She faces up to twenty five years in prison and will be sentenced by Judge Dewey Arthur on February 10, 2025. She was taken into custody awaiting sentencing. On June 24, 2024 Gluckstadt Police Department responded to a car wreck on I-55 North. On scene, they discovered that Sullivan had been driving the wrong way on the interstate and hit another car head on. Tyra Small-Jackson was the driver of the vehicle that was hit and was later pronounced dead at the hospital. Her father and infant child were also in the car but did not suffer any injuries.
Officers immediately suspected Sullivan of DUI and located multiple bottles of
Fireball whiskey inside the vehicle and smelled alcohol on her. Her blood alcohol content was
.241. Multiple witnesses reported her driving the wrong way on the interstate before she struck
Jackson’s vehicle. Officers located the liquor store and obtained a copy of the receipt where she
had purchased twenty airplane bottles that morning and also discovered text messages where she
admitted to drinking prior to the accident.
Jackson was a Canton native and a veteran teacher. She had been named the 23-24 Nichols Middle
School Teach of the Year.
District Attorney Bramlett stated, “Our hearts go out to the family of Mrs. Small-Jackson. There
is no amount of time the defendant can serve that will bring back this innocent woman who was a
beloved daughter, mother, and sister. We can only hope that this guilty plea will provide some
small amount of comfort and closure as they continue to grieve. Driving drunk is the height of
irresponsibility and selfishness and Mrs. Sullivan deserves every day she is sentenced to serve in
prison for her actions.”
14 comments:
Terrible. Glad this woman is feeling the weight of the justice system.
Hopefully she gets all 25 but I got a sneaky feeling she's gonna get anywhere from 5-10 years
20 years at the absolute max of taxpayer funded babysitting for killing someone? That seems rather ineffective as far as discouraging others from doing the same thing.
Hope she does get day for day.
I’ve never understood this. Drunk as cooter Brown or not, how do you drive the wrong way on a divided interstate?
33? That is the rough type of 33 that alcoholism will produce. Fat, Drunk, and Stupid is no way to go through life.
RIP Ms. Jackson, what a tragedy.
It will be day-for-day. Aggravated DUI is a crime that is not eligible for parole.
Can someone explain to me, why someone buys 20 little bottles, instead of one big bottle? We're notoriously cheap: haven't bought bathroom tissue since I moved our offices overseas, in '09, and was left with closets full of janitorial supplies (which, at our stingy rate of consumption, should last us two generations, minimum). We clip our nails into the orchid medium in the greenhouse, and the men in the family empty their shavers into the medium, too (free slow-release nitrogen...). So, I'm wondering why she didn't just refill one little bottle, from a big bottle. Surely, the price-per-ounce is several times more, with the little bottles. But hers seems to be a universe parallel to our own, and things seem to work differently.
And is "Fireball Whiskey" even worse than regular whiskey? (to her, I'm imagining it was "better")
As for what she did to that wonderful teacher, and to the teacher's family, who will NEVER recover from such a loss.... I have no words.
The tiny bottles are easier to shoplift.
A productive member of society is dead, and a useless sub-human will get to sit in jail on our dime.
Just disgusting.
God bless the poor people who lost a loved to this monster.
@9:25 I love how rosy a picture you have of prison. It's not fun place and 20 years is a long time. Think of the difference in someone in their mid 30s vs. mid 50s
I don't think 9:25 is saying prison is a fun place to live but there sure are a lot of repeat customers.
Me? If I go to a place and hate it...I choose to not go back.
Thanks, 3:51! You got me thinking. LEOs found a receipt for the 20 tiny bottles. However, you touched upon her possible motivation: CONCEALMENT.
Imagining myself as a Land Manatee bent upon boozing, I'd be thinking I could tuck one bottle under each of "The Girls", and at least three airplane bottles within each of my FAT FOLDS.
I suspect that two of my brood, as tots, decided upon careers in Medicine, after hearing the wild stories coming out of UMMC, about cases of "Vines" (potatoes inserted in an unseemly spot, which later sprouted), and various snacks secreted, for later consumption, within the fat folds of Jacksonians. To the 6-year-old mind, the daily finding of hidden Twinkies and Hostess Cupcakes, was probably the most alluring part of becoming a surgeon.
But now, back to imagining myself as a Boozebag Land Manatee, I'm wondering where I'd be going, that I'd need the hidden whiskey. Would I excuse myself to the restroom, from time to time? Or would I periodically shake-loose a bottle or two, while at my workstation?
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