Black Minneapolis Teen Sentenced to Over 25 years in Prison for Killing Another Black Teen
On Tuesday, Malcolm Maghundi Jackson was sentenced to 306 months in prison. The teenager was convicted in connection with the June 19 shooting of Trequan Sykes, in Hennepin County Court, Minneapolis. Jackson entered a plea for second-degree intentional murder on June 25.
In court, Jackson shared that he had been on his way home from school when the shooting took place. In an effort to avoid conflict with a group of people he knew, Jackson took a different route home. One of the people he was avoiding was the late Sykes’ brother but even while trying to avoid them, he ran into Sykes in an alley.
Jackson shared that him and Sykes exchanged words and then he shot Sykes. Sykes died from the gun shots, which were both on his back.
Until that incident, Jackson had not ever been convicted of any crimes. His sentence of over 25 years is the recommended sentence when defendant has never committed a crime, but it is also the maximum sentence.
Because Jackson has been in prison for 54 days, his sentence will be shortened by 54 days.
The judge also ordered restitution for the family of the victim.
Jackson, who is only 16, was tried as an adult for the June 1 shooting. Sykes was found wounded in the alley where the confrontation and shooting took place. He later passed away at Hennepin County Medical Center. .
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I was with him, until they said both shots were to the back. he will be 41.5 when he gets out. Let’s hope he plans on making his life an improvment while in prison. Good Luck with that.
Odds are high that the scumbag MURDERER in Colorado will receive probation or very light prison sentence for the cowardly atrocities he committed on innocent men, women and even children. In the criminal justice arena it’s referred to as “white male preferential treatment”.
i dont feel bad for him at all what eva happen to fighting it out they went light on him he should of goten life
It’s was all self defense until I heard the back shots!
may he rot in prison. dude, what was the motivation for this article? I hope it wasn’t to glean any feelings of sympathy from readers because all i feel is rage. he deserves the death penalty.
Why is Trayvon Martin’s life more valueable than the vicitim in this story. If the suspects mother never had s*x, this vicitim would still be alive. Why should he not pay the most harsh penalty? Enough said. Lock him up, throw away the key. He had his chance and his choice. Next…
If a persons threatens and turns to retrieve an object or weapon, shots to the back can still be seen in a defensive light. In law the totality of the circumstances must be known before any conclusions are drawn.
My real interest is the sub-title of this paper: “The Black people that liberals don’t want to talk about.” You must be despicable if others don’t want to even mention you, nobody loves you but the conservatives. It is Blks who restrict themselves from would be allies and join forces with hate mongers that is preventing Blks from ever advancing. How much are they paying you
What is the controversy here? We all cry out all the time about Black-on-Black crime and that it has to stop. We all cry out about how a black man gets so much time for killing a person of another color but that a black man gets minimal for killing another black. So when a black male is given a lengthy sentence as a deterent to others to “Stop The Vilence” then it becomes a news story? Our Black-on-Black violence will not slow down unless their are severe repussions for our actions. And this is a good example of how to get it done.
It is indeed a sad situation, because two lives has been destroyed and matters concerning the community needs improving. Black on Black crime is rediculious, we continue to destroy and kill one another. I speak on these matters in a self help book Redeem Yourself.
Last week, here in NYC, a beautiful 4 year old Black child, was shot in the head and killed during a shootout between rival gangs at a community basketball game . Two weeks earlier, another baby was shot in the leg. And just two days ago, 5 young Blackmen were shot at the famous Rucker Basketball Game in Harlem. Do I feel bad for this Black teen…..h**l no. By just him having a gun and shooting someone in “the back!” qualify his guilt. Daily Black on Black killings, is worst than that one time mass shooting in Colorado two weeks ago. Believe me, our Black youth had been written off years ago. When I was on the job, the top people in city government and the police department, did not address Black on Black crime a priority. Let them destroy each other was their attitude. Black crime was only addressed when it reach into White middle and upper class neighborhoods. While the city government cut back on Summer jobs for the kids, and closed creational programs and social services to “The Hood”. The police department enforced a policy of stop, frisk and contain against young Blackmen and “suspicious Looking Black people” in general. This policy is demeaning and a violation of The First Amenment. This policy has not curtailed Black on Black killings nor Black on Black crime in general. All it has done was enforce mistrust of the police department and make Black people feel like they live in a ” concentration camp “. Our local Black politicians do nothing excerpt enrich themselves and eventually go to prison……..
This is sad news as two brothers lives are destroyed…but what touches me most is that Malcolm went out of his way to change his direction, and was trying to avoid the Sykes brothers. It sounds like and feels like BULLYING was a definite part of this tragedy; and if that was indeed the case, Malcolm having a gun was not justifiable, but as a bullied boy in school myself, I can understand the fear, emotional paralysis and the subsequent need to try and defend his self. BULLYING is a large, UNaddressed problem in our communities. There are a lot of incredibly cruel, disrespectful and unloved kids who prey on other children’s shyness, respectfulness and blessings. And this feels like another one of those dilemas.
Otherwise, 25 years is too long a sentence for Malcolm to recieve. There are many people who commit much more crime, are intentional repeat offenders or are celebrities and receive much less time in prison for similar crime…and I have never been comfortable with our courts system of allowing one judge to completely decide the fate of another persons life–yours included.
I’m with Deryck, to a degree. The first thing that got me was that he claims to have gone out of his way to avoid a situation. I know from personal experience that you can try to avoid someone/something and the situation will still find you anyway. Then I was thrown off about the shots to the back. It casts some doubt that this was self defense, though as already been pointed out by someone, its still possible. Lastly, the fact that this kid had a gun on him period gives cause for alarm. So my question is what started the beef in the first place??? I’d be willing to cut the kid a break if it truly was a bully situation. But whatever was going on, I do feel a little sorry for this kid. Someone said he’d be in his 40s when he gets out. When I think about the mistakes I made at 16 I have to say I don’t wish to pay for them still into my 40s. Of course the dead victim won’t even see his 40s. A sad situation all around.
Has anyone notice that when a young kid such as this young brother is convicted, he always gets more than is neccessary? And when the white boys who killed the brother in Texas were sentenced, they were given a few years at most. Never mind the bullying that caused this young man to resort to carrying a gun or the fact that he went out of his way to avoid any trouble until it found him in an alley way.The only thing on that JUDGE”S mind was, he had to get rid of this “n***a.”! Every Day in Every City across America, “WE,” (we being us Black Folks) help the system to get rid of “US” each and everyday! The Willie Lynch Syndrome constantly in play. So, lets see, the POlice in every community of Blacks, KILL “US” and then WE KILL US with a helping hand of STUPIDITY and SELF HATRED FOR EACH OTHER. Yet “WE” still don’t catch on to what is really happening Cause WE are trying to Get Over on each Other and then “The MAN”! So full of Bullshit!
A lame a*s excuse…..we sell each other deadly a*s poison causee we cannot seem to get it in our heads and our children that it’s an EDUCATION that will help and should we all really and truly help each other, other than with VIOLENCE TOWARDS ONE ANOTHER!
Dumb m***********s Need Not Try To Understand Unless you actually Mean IT!And YOU RICH a*s BROTHERS who think you’re doing so much….show me what you can do by BUILDING A BLACK UNIVERSITY OR A BLACK CHAIN OF SUPER MARKETS and EMPLOY THE PEOPLE FROM YOUR OLD NEIGHBORHOODS. ITs all written off in TAXES. I don’t give a s**t about how many houses or what type of car and how much MONEY you might have cause it DOING A d**n THING EXCEPT FLOSSING FOOL!!! Take it across the NATION thats what you can do with your WEALTH CAUSE YOU CANNOT TAKE IT WITH YOU!
In my haste to make my comments I made some errors in my typing.
I meant to say;
ITs all written off in TAXES. I don’t give a s**t about how many houses you have or what type of car and how much MONEY you might have cause it ain’t DOING A d**n THING EXCEPT FLOSSING FOOL!!! Take it across the NATION thats what you can do with your WEALTH CAUSE YOU CANNOT TAKE IT WITH YOU! Make it “RAIN” by throwing your cash into rebuilding your old or a run down community. Not by getting caught doing foolish a*s s**t and paying it all back in heavy fines for stupid s**t.Put your name on something other than a pair of high price sneakers! Corner Stones is whats happening. I don’t give a s**t about some air or magic a*s s**t that ain’t nothing but a passing FAD!
I kinda feel that he shot him for a resaon!! i mean he tried to take a different route home..he was doing everything to try and avoid conflict!!! but some dudes will stalk your a*s to death and actually think you afraid of them, that sh*t is annoying especially toa 16 year old!! I bet he was just annoyed and tired of dumb sh*t so he shot him!!
Since the shots were in the back I don’t believe his statement that he tried to avoid the situation. I believe he stalked him. You carry a gun to use, not as bling-bling.
Two more young men down. One dead, one in prison. This violence has got to stop.
The death of the African American in America not trusted and irresponsible.
This is just the beginning,and that is the most unfortunate situation specially in African American communities. We have finally cause problems that the rest of the American community will not deal with. The African American community is on their own. The crime rate in all major cities is exclusively caused by African Americans. Statistics indicate that the average African American male and female under the age of 40 is either unemployed on welfare or in jail. We are killing each other stealing from each other wholesale. The white and Hispanic community is no longer willing to trust and higher African Americans for any type of opportunity’s that or anything else that may be available. We as a people are no longer trusted and unable to blame anyone but ourselves for our own stupidity and ignorance.
African Americans did not take advantage of the opportunities that were available, these opportunities are being taken by immigrants willing to work to make a better life for themselves.
A message to the African American community when we had the opportunity we did not take advantage of it, so now we will have to hope that the new immigrants are willing to deal with the few African Americans that are willing to take advantage of the opportunities that may be available.
I said it before, and I say it again, you didn’t want to work for the white man , and now you have to hope that the new immigrant business community is willing to let you work for them.
["d**n": we have become losers in our in our own country.]