Kevin Jackson, a 16-year-old Black male, was shot on March 6, 2017, in the 800 block of Crosby Street in Savannah, Georgia, in what began as an abrupt encounter on a neighborhood street and ended with him being rushed to a hospital, where he died from his wound. Police said officers were called around 5:00 p.m. and found him suffering from a gunshot injury.
In the first hours of the investigation, detectives said Jackson had been approached by a male suspect with dreadlocks, and they believed that person may have left the area in a black pickup truck. The case added another young life to Savannah’s growing toll of gun violence that year, and the early picture authorities gave was of a teenager caught in a sudden, targeted act of violence.
More than two weeks later, on March 24, 2017, Savannah-Chatham Metropolitan Police announced an arrest. Detectives charged 16-year-old Rassan Sharpe with Jackson’s murder, saying the investigation had led them to him after they worked through the evidence gathered in the days after the shooting. Public reporting at the time echoed the police announcement and identified Sharpe as the teen taken into custody in the Crosby Street homicide. That gave the case a named suspect and an arrest, replacing the earlier description of an unknown gunman with a direct charge in Jackson’s killing.
As for what happened after the arrest, the most reliable publicly accessible court information I found does not show a final conviction or sentence in the material available online, but it does show that the case against Rassan Sharpe remained on the Chatham County Superior Court criminal calendar years later. Official court calendar entries from 2025 list Sharpe under case number CR171281 for motion hearings, indicating the prosecution was still active or still moving through court at that point. Based on the online sources I could verify, the case produced an arrest and murder charge, but I did not find a clearly published final trial outcome, conviction, or closing disposition in the accessible records reviewed.
