White/Caucasian male Dr. Craig Joshua Jackson, 45, was found dead inside his North Bend, Oregon home in the pre-dawn hours of August 2, 2021, after a 911 call reported a medical emergency on Stanton Avenue. Responding officers discovered the 45-year-old physician from Bay Clinic in Coos Bay with injuries consistent with homicidal violence; an autopsy the next day determined he died from a gunshot wound to the head. Authorities quickly characterized the killing as a targeted home invasion, activating the Coos County Major Crimes Team to lead a multi-agency investigation.
In the immediate aftermath, investigators said two unknown males had entered the residence and engaged in a violent confrontation with the 45-year-old doctor before the fatal shot. Public statements emphasized the targeted nature of the attack rather than a random break-in, and the local community mourned the loss of a family practice physician who had served at Bay Clinic for about seven years. The crime scene details and early forensic findings reinforced that the 45-year-old victim was killed deliberately, and not as the result of an accident or self-inflicted wound.
Nearly two years later, a grand jury returned a secret indictment, and prosecutors announced charges against the victim's ex-wife, Reina Gabriela Jackson. She was accused of murder in the second degree and two counts of conspiracy to commit murder in the second degree in connection with the 45-year-old physician's death. A nationwide warrant followed, and on June 14, 2023, the U.S. Marshals Service arrested her in Atlanta as she reentered the United States from Guatemala. Prosecutors described the indictment as the culmination of a lengthy investigation, while reiterating that two male assailants had carried out the killing during the home invasion.
Public filings and subsequent reporting outlined a theory that the 45-year-old doctor's killing was a planned act rather than a burglary gone wrong, and that additional participants remained at large. News accounts and official statements repeatedly referenced two unidentified men believed to have been the on-scene attackers; as of the charging announcements in June 2023, authorities had not publicly named those suspected assailants. The case therefore includes one arrest—the ex-wife—on murder and conspiracy charges, with investigators continuing to connect the alleged planning to the violent confrontation that ended the 45-year-old physician's life.
