On a summer evening in New Orleans, 38-year-old Kurshaw Twin Jackson’s life was tragically cut short on July 28, 2018. He was caught in a hail of bullets in what authorities have described as a devastating mass shooting on South Claiborne Avenue. The chaotic scene left two other individuals, Jeremiah Lee and Taiesha Watkins, dead and seven others wounded. The male victim, Mr.
Jackson, was an unintended casualty in a conflict that police believe was rooted in gang activity.
Investigators determined that two gunmen opened fire into a crowd, with evidence suggesting that Jeremiah Lee was the primary target of the attack. The assailants unleashed a barrage of bullets, indiscriminately hitting ten people in the process. For more than three years, the case remained without a resolution, leaving a void in the lives of the victims' families and the community.
A significant breakthrough in the investigation came in October 2021, when the New Orleans Police Department announced the arrest of a suspect. Jamal Smith, who was 32 years old at the time of his arrest, was charged with three counts of second-degree murder and seven counts of attempted second-degree murder. At the time the charges were brought against him, Smith was already in federal custody on unrelated gun and drug offenses, for which he later pleaded guilty in January 2023 and was subsequently sentenced.
Despite the arrest of one of the alleged gunmen, the investigation into the deadly shooting that claimed the life of Kurshaw Twin Jackson and two others remains open. The second shooter involved in the incident has not been publicly identified, and no further arrests have been announced in connection with this tragic loss of life. The legal proceedings for the second-degree murder charges against Jamal Smith in relation to the mass shooting are not publicly available at this time.
