Demetrius Lamar Jackson, Armed Robbery, Georgia 2018

Demetrius Lamar Jackson, Armed Robbery, Georgia 2018

In a brazen crime spree that spanned nearly three weeks, Demetrius Lamar Jackson, 31, of Savannah, Georgia, robbed multiple businesses and individuals at gunpoint, leaving a trail of victims in his wake.

According to court records, Jackson's crime spree began on November 6, 2018, when he robbed an employee of a Boost Mobile store in Savannah at gunpoint while the employee was transporting cash for the store. The store manager was shot in the abdomen when she came to assist, and Jackson fled the scene in a car driven by his accomplice, Nautica Morgan, 23, of Savannah.

Over the next few days, Jackson continued to rob and carjack victims, including a young couple who was washing a Nissan sedan at a midtown Savannah carwash, a Boost Mobile employee and his girlfriend in Valdosta, Georgia, and a 73-year-old woman in Athens, Georgia, who was pistol-whipped in the head.

On November 23, 2018, Jackson's crime spree came to an end when he attempted to rob a Boost Mobile store in Columbia, South Carolina, but his pistol jammed when he tried to shoot a store employee. The employee produced his own legal firearm and shot Jackson, and Morgan then drove Jackson to a hospital emergency room in a Chevrolet Tahoe that the two of them had carjacked in Georgetown, South Carolina, a few hours earlier.

Jackson and Morgan were both arrested shortly after the Columbia shooting, and a search of the Tahoe revealed bloody clothes, the stolen .22 caliber pistol, and other evidence linking them to the crimes.

On May 24, 2022, Demetrius Lamar Jackson was sentenced to 444 months in prison after pleading guilty to Discharging and Brandishing a Firearm During and in Relation to Crimes of Violence, Carjacking and Attempted Carjacking, Interference with Commerce by Robbery, and Conspiracy to Use and Carry Firearms During Crimes of Violence. U.S. District Judge Lisa Godbey Wood also ordered Jackson to pay restitution to nine victims in the case, and to serve five years of supervised release after completion of his prison sentence.

There is no parole in the federal system. Acting U.S. Attorney David H. Estes praised the bravery of the store employee who shot Jackson, saying, 'Meechy Jackson is the epitome of a violent, armed criminal, and providence prevented his stolen gun from firing when he attempted to shoot his final victim. The legal gun owner then used his own weapon to defend himself, bringing an end to Jackson's crime spree. He'll have a long prison term to contemplate his errors – and to be thankful that he's still alive.'

Jackson repeatedly disrupted the proceedings during sentencing and was restrained by members of the U.S. Marshals Service after he lunged toward the prosecutors' table.

Source: https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdga/pr/robbery-spree-earns-convicted-felon-decades-federal-prison