Phelandis Jackson

Death by Force

In the early hours of a summer morning in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on June 12, 2010, the life of Phelandis Depure Jackson, a 29-year-old African-American man, was tragically cut short. Jackson was standing outside a restaurant on Lyndale Avenue in the southern part of the city when he became the victim of a fatal drive-by shooting. The incident, which occurred at approximately 2 a.m., marked another chapter in a particularly violent stretch of days for Minneapolis, being the third homicide in the ...Read More

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