Jackson Jambalaya

Rednecks will redneck.

The sheriff says it's a "misdemeanor?" They need a new sheriff, as the current one sounds like a drinking buddy of the perp.

Prayers for these two girls. Foolish prank did not deserve firearm being used.

While guys my age are raising kids
I'm raisin' hell just like I did
I've got a lot of crazy friends
And they forgive me of my sins

As a homeowner I find it difficult to find a lot of sympathy for these girls. Don’t vandalize other people property.

It sounds like James Massey is part of the local "good 'ole boy" club, and the sheriff and judges are going to just look the other way. They're not going to go ruining the reputation of a valuable financial supporter...just because he used deadly force against two girls playing a silly prank. How would that look if James Massey had to face criminal charges for being a @$#%ing criminal?! My oh My - What would people think?!

Sub-70 IQ there. Just an absolute dumbass. Now there are plenty of dumbasses. Problem is he doesn't know it. Lock him up.

Local news says it was birdshot. That doesn’t look like birdshot. I agree with the good ole boy cover up posts.

Right! Shoulda kilt em, huh! Rolling someone's yard is hardly vandalism. It's a joke. You'd kill someone for rolling your yard?

Nice little beemer.

I'm all for the Castle Doctrine and Stand Your Ground laws, but throwing toilet paper in trees does not constitute the use of potentially deadly force. Was his life or property in danger, or just his ego? Spare me the vandalism or trespassing argument. He could have got them on the hook for a misdemeanor vandalism charge at most, but now he will be the one getting charged.

And the daughter just responds to the message with "Ok." What an interesting home life they must have!

I am all for owning a firearm for protection but some folks just can’t wait to get their gun out and shoot somebody.

never get your legal advise from a cop. they are not your friend.

My thought as well. The daughter responding "ok" makes me so sad for what she has likely tolerated.
I get homeowner's being protective but this is extreme and very concerning.
Leave to Mississippi to protect him if he is in the right deer camp though.

The fact that this guy knew it was friends of his daughter just shows what kind of person he is. Instead of having fun with it he tries to kill them. Now I will say, the days of rolling should be over. We unfortunately live in an era where it is just not smart to do these pranks anymore. Over the years the kids just couldn't keep it simply tp and started doing actual property damage.

Good aim to be hitting a moving vehicle

Don’t get legal “advise” from @10:13, either . . .

I hate how some people are with firearms, they are itching for any moment to shoot someone. The slightest misunderstanding and they are ready to take a life.

That's how they roll in Covington County.

And we wonder why kids aren't "normal kids" these days. Mostly, it's because their f-ed up parents are crazy as hell.

The fact that he identified the model of the shotgun he used when he told his daughter he just shot at her friends tells me a lot about this guy.

That's aggravated assault every day of the week.

I am with 9:19, don't come on my property uninvited. I counted 12 trees with toilet paper in them. In Jr. College several students went and rolled a professor's house. He found out who did it and made them come back and clean it all up.

this is what paintball guns are for. I dont use lethal force. but i will bruise those pretty little teen legs and asses

Someone needs to shoot him in the ass with birdshot. Mississippi is the worse for turds like this guy. The judge needs a good ass whipping too! I'm ashamed I breath the same air as this fool. If I was the parents I'd sue the shooter out of the state of Mississippi. He is depraved texting about it too.

Get rid of the judge and the sheriff in the next election.

Lawyers please chime in ! I'm not sure pointing, aiming and discharging a deadly weapon is a misdemeanor. Please advise.

yikes...might have been a good idea to keep that last part to yourself

If they were driving away, they were no longer a threat. This guy should be arrested and charged. He could have killed someone. Over some toilet paper and he seemed to have known who they were. Pathetic.

Had those girls had extra melanin, this would be a hate crime.

Well he had a shotgun.

There are, on a reliable basis, plenty of commenters on this site who display an extreme dearth of knowledge as to how self defense works whenever there is a story about a simple trespass or shoplifting/theft (looking at you, 9:19 and 10:55). This story is a good illustration of where that attitude gets you.

Civil law suits to follow for damages to the car and civil battery. Precedent would support such claims. See Whitten v. Cox, 799 So.2d 1 (Miss. 2000). (Former judge held civilly liable for battery due to unreasonable use of force against persons he accused of trespassing.)

Sounds like attempted murder as well as the aggravated assault with the firearm enhancement. If the justice system was just, he’d be looking at 15-20 and a lawsuit that would leave him broke. I expect he won’t be charged.

Discharging a deadly weapon in the direction of a person is aggravated assault regardless of what the Sheriff believes.

Kingfish, Thank you for posting this. I would have never have known this type of behavior existed if it wasn't for your blog. Society & culture have dipped to new lows when crap like this occurs. I feel sorry for the daughter having a parent like this. I bet she can't wait to get away from such a dysfunctional home. She will now have to suffer through the school year as an ostracized individual because of her parent actions. Sad, so sad. Just think how she is feeling. My dad shot at my two friends who by the grace of God was not blinded, wounded, or killed. Over what? Attempting to toilet paper a yard. I hope post 9:19 AM reads my post. But, thanks again KF. I'm going to send a small contribution to keep this interesting blog turning over stones to bring such stories to light. Amazing, simply amazing.

Finding out who did it and making them come back to clean it up is a far more appropriate response in this situation.

James definitely wears Hey Dudes.

I also don't take legal advice from people that can't spell advice.

On another note, it sounds like the high sheriff and judge are probably buddies with James "Bubba" Massey. I have no idea if his nickname is Bubba, but he sure fits the bill.

Yeah they need to teach this white boy a lesson. They also need to take his house and any future earnings in a lawsuit.

Wow. It appears the middle class peasants with no savings who depend on a salary to survive will go to any lengths to protect their mortgaged properties they have contracts for to pay off. This type of barbaric, animalistic attitude is unimaginable and difficult for me to understand.

I feel sad and scared for that daughter living with this person as her father. I can't imagine being the parents of those other friends. Rolling is a fun teenage American tradition.

Hope something comes of this. Small town redneck justice is scary.

He knew who did it (text messages reveal that), he shot at them and I am assuming he did not even fire a warning shot. He was probably watching them while the were in the act of rolling him (maybe 15 minutes?). Just looking at him he looks like a perv and maybe has some weird relationship (in his head) with one of the girls and was trying to prove his manhood

This guy has to work somewhere. The daddies of the girls he shot at need to go have a talk with him. That is what I would do. But Im also 6’4, work out, and have MMA experience.

@10:57 yikes...might have been a good idea to keep that last part to yourself

@11:27 & 12:50

why? please be specific

Given the fact that one of them is allowed to drive a BMW ("b'MOI! The car of choice for Narcissistic Sociopaths, everywhere!"- with blacked-out-windows, I'm doubting either says "Daddy". It's more likely a shrill, drawn-out White-Trash-style "Duaeiiiiiiiiiiid".

And if we had a daughter who hung-out with them - leading up to THIS life-ruining moment, she'd be getting 50k, a one-way ticket to Honolulu, and a warning to never set foot on this continent, again. The daughter, and her "friends" have DESTROYED that man's life.

You can bet that the "rolling" was only the latest in a series of aggressions. Now, stress and expenses (medical, attorneys, civil suit judgements...) will slowly KILL and BANKRUPT him.

But disinheriting the daughter (assuming these were actually her friends, and not MEAN GIRLS TERRORIZING A VICTIM), would be the wise thing for the man AND his wife to do.

Again, these girls may just be current or former classmates of the daughter, rather than friends. Remember how news outlets characterize attacks upon victims as "fights"? Maybe this is part of a protracted bullying campaign.

Practicing attorney for 38 years. The parents of these young girls should be advised to immediatly contact the Covington County Sherriff AND the county prosecutor to demand the cases be treated as felonies. Otherwise, the county prosecutor could allow this POS to plead to misdemeanor simple assault . The State would then be barred to prosecute as felonies under the double jeopardy clause set out under 5TH Amendment . They are victims of serious violent felony crimes and have this absolute right to be advised of any "plea deals" under the Mississippi Crime Victims Act.

@12:50. I thought the same thing. Someone is letting their fantasies come to the surface.

Shooting at kids for rolling your house has got to be the dumbest use of Castle Doctrine imaginable.

And that dad with the gun has got to be a millennial. In the 80's, our parents bought the TP for us to go rolling -- and we usually brought eggs, too.

Granny uses rock salt.

While the chief posted some excellent points, I don't think he's a lawyer and therefore can't give legal advice. Further, he seems to conflate several points of law. In summary, AOJ. If you don't know what that means, you need further education on self defense law.

Whatever happened to parents calling other parents to sort things out. If he was so butt hurt and knew the girls, he could call their parents and ask them to have the girls come clean up the mess or make it up with yard work or something. At the very least he could have asked them to not do it again via their parents.
His yard isn’t Toomer’s Corner and they weren’t Almorn Updyke.

And to think that during the COVID pandemic, he would have been thanking them for the Charmin.

But now he is the butt of all jokes.

Yea, those big cities are horrible. Look at Chicago, people get shot every weekend.

A lot of comments on this one. Does anyone here know what could have been done to prevent all of this?

This guy needs to be a felon so he can't legally own firearms in the future.

When you say "Rednecks", are you talking about the teen hoydens who appear to have mounted a sustained campaign of harassment against the Massey household? Or, are you referring to the man who shot at the hoydens? If it's the latter, you're not very perceptive. Aside from Massey's sun-damaged skin, there's nothing in this article which would indicate his social status as being "Redneck".

His surname is Norman English. The family home is large and stately - surrounded by extensive, well-landscaped and carefully-groomed grounds.

My guess is that Massey maintains the home's grounds, himself (or did: it's possible that his future is now looking very dark). If so, he has considerable emotional investment in the way the home's grounds look - not to mention massive investment of time/effort/SWEAT/resources.

Remember, that he was reacting to something (or a series of somethings) done TO him.

My own origins are two steps down from 'Redneck', as are my husband's. Then, we moved to 'Fashionable Northeast Jackson', where the redneckiness of everyone, was under constant debate. We had over a decade, to learn the finer points of determining who was "Red", and who wasn't (most of Jackson's whites could only DREAM of social-climbing their way up into neckhood).

I remember when someone in our office condo hired a girl from Brookhaven, whose "dad" was in Financial Services. Her "liquor store name" was SUB-REDNECK, and her looks were "off", and so she was assigned to the "Exotic" category to which DH and I had been assigned. At least we'd picked names for ourselves, suggesting we came from families of recently-ennobled Austrian exotics (think 'von Rothschild'), and so we got to shun that gal named after a kind of booze.

So, I can state with authority, that Massey's social status is higher than 'Redneck'. Those girls, however, judging from their vehicle and their behavior, belong in a class BELOW 'Redneck'

If that's bird shot, BMW is using some mighty thin sheet metal.

13:11...Dafuq? Go take your meds.

Imagine the backlash his poor daughter faces in school. She is now the kid of a verifiable lunatic. Kids are ruthless and he just made her stick out for all the wrong reasons. I am sure they wont make her life hell at all.

You cannot drink Ole Smokey Moonshine and be anywhere close to a weapon! Keep your little brat ass kids at home cause we do have crazies in Covington County and I’d feel for a fool that would try to break into his Denali 350 pickup!

Back in the 80s, in Covington County, we thoroughly rolled a teacher’s yard the week before we graduated. Her husband didn’t shoot. He just watched to see who it was, then the principal called our hung over asses out of first period the next day and said “go to the ag shop and get rakes and go clean up that yard or you don’t walk graduation”. Much more effective than “bird shot”. It was hot and we were sweating beer.

"Kids are ruthless...". Yeah. Like when they vandalize others' property.

It being Mississippi, it's reasonable to assume the daughter is in a private school. Violent bullying is is the CHIEF reason why private schools are necessary. If the school is private, she'll be OK.

But please consider that many will privately consider Massey to be a HERO. People are far less amused by "teenage pranks" than some assume.

Also, consider that bullies (the kind of misbegotten garbage who're "ruthless" and might "make her life hell") RESPECT POWER AND FORCE.

In any event, there's no need to finish high school. I'm sure the daughter's test results will allow her to enter college ahead-of-schedule. Rather than risk having my child driven to suicide by bullies who never should have been born, I'd get her into college.

You know covid is over and done with when we're back to rolling yards as just good fun. Maybe the perps can sue and take spend the money from their settlement checks and get tattoos and piercings.

The comments at 1:11 and 3:30 make we wonder if this Massey dude is a JJ reader. Either way, they need either more or less meds. I'm just not sure which.

I remember rolling each other's houses as a right of passage in high school. And for those who think the parents need to be contacted to make them clean it up, TP breaks down after a couple of good rains.

Damn people, lighten up. It's like some of y'all have been elderly your entire lives.

Get your chicken little asses off my goddamn lawn.

My God, what have we come to when gun owners are using assault rifles against children armed only with toilet paper. I mean, give peace a chance.

Today is Middle Child Day. The man may suffer from Middle Child Syndrome which caused him to act in an irrational manner.

If people would stay off of others property and also out of everyone else business, then these things wont happen. This is a different time that we live in. There is to much evil, so people are defensive. Stay off others property.

You dont shoot them, you disable their vehicle without them knowing. Be sneaky. I've stolen car keys and let them finish. Then made them clean up.

Did this happen while the moon was full?

KF, keep us posted on any updates. Please. This has all the elements to get the general population juices stirred up.
1. Private Property Invasion.
2. Pretty Legs & Asses.
3. Daughter life ruined.
4. Will there be justice?
Response to Comments:
8-12-2025 1:13 PM Your good! Sounds like you know your law!
8-12-2025 3:30 PM Touched a nerve did we by the trigger word Redneck.
8/12/2025 11:56 AM Father made daughter life Hell.
8/12/2025 10:57 AM Into S/M are we.

A lot of y'all are overlooking that he knew these kids, so it wasn't strangers on his property. He texted his daughter for her to let them know he was waiting up, so she wasn't being bullied. And, he discharged a deadly weapon at those teenagers as they were leaving. If his life is ruined, it's no one's fault but his for not being capable of a measured response. Turning the hose on them or activating the sprinkler system would have been just as effective, and likely a lot more fun for everyone.

I can only imagine the flaming bag of dog shit on the front porch would have resulted in the use of some semi automatic weapon?!

It's hard to imagine, 8:51, but bullies text their victims, now. So yes, this could be part of a campaign of bullying. The home is not on a 60'x120' city lot. The grounds are multi-acre (watch the video...), and probably do not have a sprinkler system (that part of Mississippi is in the rainfall category next to 'Rainforest'). Did you not see the distance between the house and the trees? ...and the distance from the house to the brick mailbox pillar? I'm sure there are hoses, but it would take a while to assemble and drag them out to where the fourteen "rolled" trees were. All the while, the girls would be driving across the lawn, rolling trees, and jeering at the man (come to think of it, maybe something similar DID happen).

There's a backstory, here, and we're not getting it. SOMETHING drove the poor guy temporarily out of his mind (apart from mowing a vast lawn, in the worst part of a Mississippi summer - something which can definitely cook a person's brain), and we're not being told about it.

"But Im also 6’4, work out, and have MMA experience." - and your grandmother ran a 4.5 40.

Hey, Massey - Lighten up, Francis.

Thank you 10:24. Started my day with a laugh.

mediocre white males are so full of rage and penis envy that now they are shooting at white girls too?

Teens have been rolling yards for decades. A hose and rake is a better solution, but that requires common sense and remembering you might not have been perfect in your teen years.

Why shoot at them? Why not catch them in the act and then tie them up in the punishment room and and then “correct” every single one of them like a real man?

In my experience, TPing someone's yard isn't typically done in a bullying manner but more often done to a friend as a prank. My neighbor has a daughter in high school and theirs was papered twice last fall. It happens. It's not worth unloading a shotgun at them. Y'all need some therapy if you think that is an appropriate response. And it has nothing to do with the castle doctrine, so don't go there. I hope this man spends a little time behind bars for this ridiculous behavior.

would love for all these "alpha males" who are such badasses to explain how they go through life so scared of their shadow that they have to employ a gun every chance they get? seems the opposite of alpha...

Therapy for the poorly adjusted man child would have been a good start.

Massey is surely campaigning for Mississippi to get its first ever Purge Day approved.

Or at a minimum he hosts Fight Club once a month in his sprawling estate.

Something tells me, 1:34, that you're the class of people who drag communities down. Back in the '80s, communities still (barely) tolerated people like you. In our balkanized and stressed communities, today, that's no longer true.

Even back in the '80s, few were amused by the football team mascot cutouts in your front yards. People openly groaned, when they spotted the shutters on your houses, painted in "team colors". If 'White Trash' was the only label applied to you, you got-off-light.

People told their children not to make snide remarks about the colored lights in your Christmas displays. "They can't help it. They don't know any better."

Few were impressed by your drag-racing, and secretly hoped you'd hit culverts or trees. Parents warned their boys about poking girls of your class - lest they get trapped into inappropriate marriages and/or child support - and worse: having their families linked to loud, obnoxious families like yours.

People made fun of your cartoonish jokes of weddings, featured in Mississippi Magazine's Wedding Issue (kept on coffee tables, to be read-out-loud, for moments of rolling-on-the-floor hilarity). Your disruptive loudness was not welcome in the workplace. Your "lordy lordy ___'s forty" billboards got eye-rolls and cringes, rather than chuckles. And, to this day, when one of you falls off a hunting stand, or crashes his car and dies - people quietly celebrate.

Easiest to spray the vandals and the TP with the hose, go back to sleep, let the teens explain to their parents how they got wet.

"SOMETHING drove the poor guy temporarily out of his mind"

You mean something like drugs? Alcohol? Infowars?

Krysatyr, I'll start with the last part of your post, and then work back. You're assuming that there are responsible parents involved, who WOULD censure the daughters' behavior. In reality, bullies are generally the children of bullies. The parents are probably ENABLERS and DEFENDERS and VICTIM-BLAMERS, who've been forcefully and viciously excusing the aggressions of their offspring, since Pre-K.

Too, the word "parents" implicitly assumes the existence of intact couples. How likely do you think that is, given the girls' behavior, and the dark-tinted windows on their creepmobile?

Now, please watch the video which Kingfish has thoughtfully provided. Another poster counted 14 trees which were "rolled". Maybe spatial visualization is a problem for you, so I'll spell-it-out. The home is surrounded by several acres. There is no "the hose". There are probably many hoses, which might require linking, to reach the area of the affected trees.

Possibly, you're mobility-impaired, and so I'll explain that hoses are heavy. It would take TIME, to screw the hoses together, then trudge across the extensive lawns, dragging the linked hoses, to reach the "teens". (this, after getting out of bed, calming the hysterical dog(s) which awakened the household, getting dressed, disarming the alarms...)

The "teens", however, were probably using their creepmobile, to DRIVE ACROSS THE LAWN (possibly leaving ruts), to get from one tree to the next (and to transport toilet paper sufficient for "rolling" FOURTEEN TREES). Again, watch the pluckin' video!

I will add that there are good reasons why people surround their homes with big lawns (then spend endless hours mowing those lawns - even in the most horrible weeks of Mississippi summers). It's to insulate themselves from destructive people.

Too, for those who do not understand life in rural communities, the local authorities are probably all-too-familiar with those "teens" and their families. They know (and by "know", I also mean in Madea's "Know, in the Biblical sense", and they regret it, and probably have the VD Clinic paperwork to prove it) the mom, and the "dad" and the other "dad" and the other "dad" and the next "dad" and all the "granddads" and the mawmers and the mawmaws boyfriends and the girlfriends and the huntin' camp special buddies, and the.... Such familiarity might color perceptions, informing authorities' response.