Exclusive: Man arrested for Coronet Place homicide, victim’s family speaks
JACKSON, Miss. (WLBT) – On Thursday, officers from the Jackson Police Department arrested 32-year-old Robert Maximilian White in the shooting death of 39-year-old Charles Jackson.
The initial incident occurred Tuesday in the 2400 block of Coronet Place in South Jackson.
Interim Police Chief Tyree Jones said Jackson was found dead from multiple gunshot wounds.
“Soon as I seen him, I started screaming. I said, ‘Call 911. That is the boy that shot him – the boy who shot my brother,’” said Christopher Woodman, the victim’s brother.
On Thursday, Woodman told 3 On Your Side that he and other family members were White’s next targets.
Woodman claimed, after walking home from work, he spotted White in his yard with a gun.
“He started sprinting down the road towards me, so I turned and went the other way,” Woodman recalled.
That is the moment when Woodman said he and his girlfriend had no other choice but to run for their lives and his cries for help led to White’s arrest.
Woodman also told 3 On Your Side that everything went downhill when the suspect asked his brother, Charles Jackson, for a ride to the store.
“It was about 9 p.m. and he was headed out to the store and that boy came walking up asking if he can drop him off on the way. He said, ‘Yeah hop in.’ 10 minutes later, that boy came back driving my brother’s truck without my brother with blood all over his hands and his shirt,” Woodman remembered.
That store-run would be the last time they saw their loved one alive.
“We spent the rest of the night calling around, trying to find my brother, because we couldn’t get a hold of him. I walked to this boy’s house to see where my brother and the truck were. He pulled a gun and a knife like this long on me trying to get me to go in the woods with him,” Woodman said. “That freaked me the hell out. We came back here and talked to the investigator and told him what happened and then we come home now and see him again.”
Here’s what the couple had to say when asked why they believed they were the suspect’s next target.
“I think we just knew too much. We had seen him come back here,” said Woodman.
“We knew a little bit too much and he’s trying to knock us off,” said Amy De’Jesus, a friend of Jackson.
According to JPD Detective Tommie Brown, White is now charged with capital murder, armed car-jacking, and two counts of armed robbery on a business.
The business in question is Debo’s Corner on North Side Drive.
“I’m very relieved. I’ve been worried about it for the last two days and it’s been driving me nuts knowing he’s out there. He went out around town bragging about what he had done like it’s cool,” Woodman said.
This case is still an active and ongoing investigation.
It marks the 41st homicide for the capital city this year.
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