Hinds County District Attorney Jody Owens issued the following statement.
Hinds County District Attorney Jody E. Owens, II, announced that Jaquantis McGee pleaded guilty to Second-Degree Murder in connection with the fatal shooting of Wendell Knowles, 31, outside a Jackson gas station in 2022.
The shooting occurred on April 1, 2022, on Englewood Street in Jackson. According to Jackson Police Department, McGee, also known as “Kodak,” approached Knowles and asked, “Where’s my $5?” Before Knowles could respond, McGee pulled out a gun and opened fire. Knowles was shot once in the chest and died at the scene. The suspect was later arrested and taken into custody. McGee entered a guilty plea to Second-Degree Murder and was sentenced to 34 years, with 12 years suspended. He will serve 22 years day for day in the custody of the Mississippi Department of Corrections, with no eligibility for early release or parole. “A man lost his life over five dollars,” stated District Attorney Jody Owens. “There’s no justification for that. Mr. McGee will now spend the next two decades behind bars. We will not allow this level of disregard for life to become normal, and our office will continue to hold people accountable for these reckless and irreversible acts.”
16 comments:
How does a person who kills another person over $5 only get 22 years instead of life?
No blessings for Kodak. Who was the judge?
What was the point of suspending 12 years of the sentence of a murderer?
Jody knew to grab way more than $5
Why didn't he get life?!? You get 20 years in Madison for a controlled substance violation. Jody is a weak man.
Kodak gonna get shook like a Polaroid picture on the inside.
Why? Because it wasn't FIRST DEGREE murder.
How is Jody Owens still representing Hinds County as a prosecutor in Court? Won't his prosecutions be suspect when he himself is found guilty and imprisoned?
“Yo bro what you in for?” “Man I smoked some dude bc he asked me for 5 dollas. The nerve right?”
I've been waiting to see how this case developed. I mean seriously, picture shooting someone over $5. Now he can focus on surviving in prison.
Any of you lawyers able to explain how Owens can try cases? It’s not like he is indicted for a non law related crime. He specifically discussed commingling dirty money with confiscated money. Does he just remove himself from the chain of custody of all physical evidence? Can he try cases all the way up to being found guilty?
Why not spend $5 on a few 9mm bullets and place them into his brain? Otherwise, we spend $75,000 a year for 22 years.
Five bucks on a couple of bullets would be more cost effective.
add on an extra 10 years for that hairdo.
It wasn't first degree murder because Jody is a chicken shit and all he wanted was a plea. Take THAT, 3:04.
Never have understood partial sentence suspensions. Might as well not have any sentencing standards at all.
Jody sure knows how to lighten a sentence to get a plea deal so he doesn’t have to go to trial, ever….
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