

Officers, however, instead found his three slain family members. Tuesday after Jackson’s frantic call about a male intruder. Furthermore, the defendant’s concocted story of a phantom burglar shows the defendant acted out of malice and calculated intent to get away with these murders.”Īccording to the complaint, officers arrived at the scene at around 8:23 a.m. “This was more than just a murder, it was an execution of the defendant’s mother, father, and sister. “This was a horrendous murder,” Assistant Linn County Attorney Ryan Decker said during Jackson’s initial court appearance on Wednesday.
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‘Did I Hurt You?’: Accused Killer Grills 11-Year-OId Son in Grisly Double-Murder Trial While authorities have not yet established a motive, a criminal complaint obtained by The Daily Beast said that Jackson admitted that “his father had recently advised that he needed to find a job or move out.” It noted that the house showed no signs of being burglarized. Jackson has been charged with three counts of first-degree murder and is being held in Linn County Jail on a $3 million bond. Police, however, now believe it was actually Jackson who murdered his father, 61-year-old Jan Jackson, his 68-year-old mother, Melissa Jackson, and their daughter, Sabrina.


Jackson had suffered a gunshot wound to the foot after what he insisted was a struggle over the rifle with the mysterious man. When Cedar Rapid officers arrived at the scene, they found Jackson’s parents and his 19-year-old sister-a high-achieving student who introduced then-presidential candidate Andrew Yang during his 2019 visit to Iowa-fatally shot in different rooms of the expansive house. Alexander Jackson, a 20-year-old University of Iowa student, called police Tuesday morning in a panic, claiming a masked intruder had shot him and his father inside their home.
