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Friday, Jan. 2, 2009 | 10:34 a.m.
The young girl shot to death while playing with an illegal firearm at her home Wednesday night in the southwest Las Vegas Valley has been identified as 6-year-old Jorden Jackson.
The Clark County coroner’s office said the cause of death was a gunshot wound to the chest.
Metro homicide and abuse detectives responded at about 7:50 p.m. Wednesday to the 7400 block of Wine Creek Street, where officers discovered the child suffering from a single gunshot wound.
Police said children had been playing with a firearm in a bedroom when the gun discharged, killing Jackson.
The firearm was bought by the victim’s father, 37-year-old Jevell Jackson, who was prohibited from owning a firearm because of previous felony convictions. Jackson was arrested in connection with being an ex-felon in possession of a firearm, one count of felony child abuse with substantial bodily harm and two additional counts of felony child abuse.
The other children in the home have been placed in protective custody pending further investigation.
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Lock this man up for good.
So irresponsible.
There is no reason to have a firearm in a home.
Always a tragic outcome.
I wonder what was the mother doing?
How can she let this happen?
She should go to jail too.
sweetwinner,
I take it you don't have a gun in your house. Post your address so the bad guys all know to go to your place without worrying about you being able to defend yourself.
If you choose to not defend yourself when you or your family is put in harm's way, that's your choice. I'll continue to defend me & my family by responsibly exercising my 2nd Amendment right, thank you very much.
From the Aug. 15th, 2007 Review-Journal:
According to authorities, a home-owner in a gated community was awakened by noises and, to his horror, found an intruder choking his wife. The homeowner quickly ran for his gun and returned to discover two additional intruders. The men, at least one of them armed with a gun, held the homeowner's wife hostage and demanded cash and jewelry. Fearing his wife would be killed, the homeowner opened fire and at least one of the intruders shot back. The suspects fled. Two were sought by police; one died in the backyard.
Listen, law makers should do away with all hand guns. Firearms are more trouble than they're worth.
There are other ways to protect yourself and your family than having a firearm.
Have fun swinging your golf club or rolling pin at the big bad burglars.....
If there are such effective ways of defending oneself, why do the police still carry guns? Even British police carry guns and they have EXTREMELY strict gun laws there. Your theory doesn't wash. By the way, cars kill far more people than guns do. How many do you have in your garage? I thought so.
I'm sorry Mr. WS, you're missing my point here. If our government would pass a bill to ban firearm with the exception of law enforcement, then tragic consequences like this would never happen and this country would be a safer place to live. There would be no more armed burglaries,deranged pschotic maniac shootings, drive by shootings,and massacres like Columbine and Virgina tech.
Even if a burglar break into your home(if that might even happen in you lifetime.), what's the chance that you can get to your gun? You're better off installing burglar bars to protect yourself in first place.
"sweetwinner" -- government does NOT have the authority to "pass a bill to ban firearms[sic]" Both Constitutions are clear on that. The U.S. Supreme Court also made that clear recently in the Heller case.
Speaking as one who had a violent home intruder, I'm glad you and your ilk don't get to make my choices for me. I am glad to exercise my liberty to be armed.
As for Mr. Jackson and his family, the article says nothing about his felony record being for anything violent. The firearm prohibition is usually a standard condition on all probation forms, even child support convictions. That's just stupid.
His arrest for "felony child abuse" and taking all the children into state custody, is another stupid reaction by the state. Nothing is mentioned about a mother or other family who can take the family. None of this appears to do anything good for the public, and certainly does nothing to lessen this family's tragedy.
People need to quit blaming the gun and start blaming the drug dealing thug that put a loaded firearm in the reach of children. We have laws already and this guy disobeyed them. He put the gun in the room of the 13 years old brother. The 7 year old also had access. Need to put the blame on the parent and this thug! He was not concerned with a law that he cant have a firearm so guess what happens when you disarm good citizens? Well then the cops and the bad guys have them thats what. The answer is not gun control the answer is THUG control!
"Speaking as one who had a violent home intruder, I'm glad you and your ilk don't get to make my choices for me. I am glad to exercise my liberty to be armed."
Since you have experience, I would be curious to know how having a gun worked out for you with the intruder. Did you use it? Did it help you in that situation?
johnvegas -- didn't have any weapon at the time. That's why I do now. I will NOT be helpless in my own home again.
Guns are for scared little girls that want to feel like men.Guns make girls feel like men.
Rebinreno: I don't think any women or girls that I know want to feel like men. Thanks for acting like being a girl is the worst thing in the world. I don't have a gun in my house because I don't want an intruder to take the gun from me and kill me or my son with the gun. I have taken self-defense classes and I can fight off up to 4 people at one time. I have been trained to fight to either a knock-out of death, whichever comes first. I was also attacked before I took self-defense classes and I am glad I did not have a gun on me because they would have killed me and raped me. At least this way I came out alive. Weapons take things to a different level very quickly. My heart just breaks for the little girl and brother of this family. Such a waste just because someone was negligent with a gun.
I'm with KillerB. My cars were both broken into and while we were all home someone tried to break into my home's front door (I live in a $300k area).
My ex-g/f was forced to exit my car at gunpoint one time. I just caught a democrat coming over my neighbor's fence into my yard in Aug. I now have 3 pistols and a shotgun. I also have a license to carry a firearm.I pray I never am forced to use them. I'm also with sweetwinner I wish guns didn't exist. However in 2009 they do and as another friend pointed out the thugs have them and act stupid. I'll never be helpless again.
Also, our other friend pointed out cars kill more people than guns.I wish we could invest more tax dollars in our schools so 100% of all kids could have a Harvard level education! Let's take the bank's $700B and turn all schools into A+ institutions...
Mt7:12 is the golden rule. We should all practice it. Also, Mt7:1 tells us not to judge others. So , I respect you all.
If someone gets stupid I pray they backdown and my next encounter has a peaceful ending.
Happy New Year to you all and GOD bless our great country full of choices and opinions!
Rebinreno - that's an insult to girls, and you've shown even buffoons can post, too.
Hey, sweetwhiner, "If our government would pass a bill to ban firearm with the exception of law enforcement," as you suggest, only law enforcement and criminals would have guns. Do you really think the low-life gang-bangers and thugs would turn in their guns in such a case?
THiS iS RiDiCUlOUS WHAT SOME PPL ARE SAYING WHAT!! MY NiECE Will BE VERY MiSSED, THiS i HOPE Will TEACH PPl A lESSON TO NOT HAVE GUNS iN THE HOUSE. UNFORTUNATlY MY NiECE WAS TAKEN. I kNOW ONE THiNG MY NEPHEW WOUlD NEVER TRY TO HURT HiS SiSTER THEY WERE VERY ClOSE && ClOSE TO FAMilY. AS FOR MY SiSTER SHES COPiNG BECAUSE THE FAMilY WAS ClOSE. iTS NOT JUST HARD ON HER iTS HARD ON All OF US BEiNG WE WERE A ClOSE FAMilY. && AS FAR AS THE "THUG CONTROl" JUST BECAUSE HES BlACK AND HAD A GUN DOESNT MEAN HES A "THUG"; BUT THAT DiDNT MEAN TO HAVE A GUN iN THE HOME. iTS SAD TO SAY OUR PRiNCESS iS GONE BUT THiS Will DEFiNiTElY HAVE A TOl ON HiM AND HE Will HAVE TO DEAl WiTH ON HiS OWN && iT SHOUlD TEAR HiM DOWN EVENTUAllY. THiS SiTUATiON HAS lOTS OF CONTROVERSY BUT AT THE END OF THE DAY i WOUlD HOPE THiS TEACHES PPL A lESSON && iT SHOUlDNT OF NEVER HAPPENED BUT iT DiD. i MiSS && THE WHOlE FAMilY Will MiSS HER & SHE Will NEVER BE FORGOTTEN!!
R.I.P AUNTiES PRiNCESS
JEVELL,GOD BLESS YOU AND YOUR FAMILY. THIS ACCIDENT IS TRAGIC AND UNFORTUNATE. I KNOW YOUR HURTING AND IT WILL BE ALONG TIME BEFORE YOU WILL EVER COME TO GRIPS WITH LIFE. I AM READING ALL THIS HORRIBLE STUFF PEOPLLE ARE SAYING AND I KNOW THEY DON'T REALLY KNOW YOU,AND YES PEOPLE DO KEEP GUNS AROUND TO PROTECT THEMSELVES AND THEIR FAMILIES AND PERSONAL BELONGINGS,AND THEY NEVER GET CAUGHT.EVERYONE AND I MEAN EVERYONE HAS DONE SOMETHING AGAINST THE LAW!IN THIS SITUATION EVERYBODY WANTS TO SEE SOMEBODY PAY.PEOPLE NEED TO FOCUS ON THE REAL PICTURE THEIR PRECIOUS CHILDREN HURT IN ALL THIS,AND YOU DUMMIES PASSING JUDGEMENT AIN'T MAKING THINGS NO BETTER!DID U GUESS SEND A CARD OR OFFER ANY CONDOLENCES?