Sindawe
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Rember the guy in TN who shot and killed one of two crimminals who forced in to go to his bank and withdraw money? Well he's back in jail, for parole violation.
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Vigilante jailed; parole violation NOW he's a vigilante :banghead:
Jacob Evans has 1969 conviction for murder
By Lawrence Buser
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August 25, 2005
The crime victim who has been widely praised and congratulated for killing one of the gunmen who tried to rob him two weeks ago is now behind bars for violating parole on a murder he committed 36 years ago.
Jacob Evans, 59, was not charged for killing one of the two would-be robbers on Aug. 9 outside of a South Memphis bank because the shooting was ruled justifiable, but he was taken into custody this week for violating terms of his parole by possessing a weapon.
He was arrested Monday and booked into Shelby County Jail. He will be sent to West Tennessee State Prison at Henning until a parole hearing can be held, said Bo Irvin, executive director of the Tennessee Board of Probation and Parole in Nashville.
The parole board will decide if he should be released or returned to prison to continue his life sentence. If returned to prison, he would still have the opportunity for parole.
Dist. Atty. Bill Gibbons said the murder conviction was not immediately discovered because computer records do not go back that far, but that it would have had no bearing on the ruling of justifiable homicide.
Evans was in jail garb Wednesday in Juvenile Court, where he was prepared to testify against the second robber he said he did not shoot only because the .357-Magnum he bought on the streets had jammed. Alonzo Teandra Thomas, 17, will be handled as an adult on charges of aggravated robbery and aggravated kidnapping.
Referee Herb Lane told Evans that whenever he is released to "keep a wide berth" and to have no contact with Thomas or his family.
Evans replied: "Believe me, I am not a troublemaker in no kind of way."
But there was trouble in his past.
On Feb. 1, 1969, Evans shot his mother-in-law to death by mistake when he was trying to shoot another man, records show. Ollie Lee Derdun, 54, of the 900 block of Texas was killed by a shotgun blast when Evans became involved in an argument with his estranged wife. Two other people were wounded.
Evans was convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to life in prison. He began serving his sentence Sept. 16, 1969, and was released on parole in 1994 to authorities in Massachusetts, where he was wanted on another offense, Irvin said. He did not know the nature of that offense.
Irvin said Evans returned to Tennessee in November 1996.
Criminal Court records show that while in prison, Evans pleaded guilty to a 1989 drug possession charge.
The shooting this month, in which 17-year-old Leverett Dickson was killed, happened after Evans was jumped by two men as he drove to his home in the 300 block of Edsel.
He said the men forced him to drive to the First Tennessee Bank at 1200 S. Third, where one went inside to get a withdrawal slip. Dickson, who had a pistol and a .22-caliber rifle, stayed in the car with Evans, who reached under his seat, turned and fired six times at his armed captor.
He said he tried to shoot the other robber, but the $75 gun he bought on a parking lot jammed.
Evans told police the two were the same ones who robbed him of $465 three weeks earlier.
Gibbons said that under state law, a person cannot be charged with not having a gun permit if the gun is used in justifiable self-defense.
-- Lawrence Buser: 529-2385
Source:http://www.commercialappeal.com/mca/local_news/article/0,1426,MCA_437_4028404,00.html
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Vigilante jailed; parole violation NOW he's a vigilante :banghead:
Jacob Evans has 1969 conviction for murder
By Lawrence Buser
Contact
August 25, 2005
The crime victim who has been widely praised and congratulated for killing one of the gunmen who tried to rob him two weeks ago is now behind bars for violating parole on a murder he committed 36 years ago.
Jacob Evans, 59, was not charged for killing one of the two would-be robbers on Aug. 9 outside of a South Memphis bank because the shooting was ruled justifiable, but he was taken into custody this week for violating terms of his parole by possessing a weapon.
He was arrested Monday and booked into Shelby County Jail. He will be sent to West Tennessee State Prison at Henning until a parole hearing can be held, said Bo Irvin, executive director of the Tennessee Board of Probation and Parole in Nashville.
The parole board will decide if he should be released or returned to prison to continue his life sentence. If returned to prison, he would still have the opportunity for parole.
Dist. Atty. Bill Gibbons said the murder conviction was not immediately discovered because computer records do not go back that far, but that it would have had no bearing on the ruling of justifiable homicide.
Evans was in jail garb Wednesday in Juvenile Court, where he was prepared to testify against the second robber he said he did not shoot only because the .357-Magnum he bought on the streets had jammed. Alonzo Teandra Thomas, 17, will be handled as an adult on charges of aggravated robbery and aggravated kidnapping.
Referee Herb Lane told Evans that whenever he is released to "keep a wide berth" and to have no contact with Thomas or his family.
Evans replied: "Believe me, I am not a troublemaker in no kind of way."
But there was trouble in his past.
On Feb. 1, 1969, Evans shot his mother-in-law to death by mistake when he was trying to shoot another man, records show. Ollie Lee Derdun, 54, of the 900 block of Texas was killed by a shotgun blast when Evans became involved in an argument with his estranged wife. Two other people were wounded.
Evans was convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to life in prison. He began serving his sentence Sept. 16, 1969, and was released on parole in 1994 to authorities in Massachusetts, where he was wanted on another offense, Irvin said. He did not know the nature of that offense.
Irvin said Evans returned to Tennessee in November 1996.
Criminal Court records show that while in prison, Evans pleaded guilty to a 1989 drug possession charge.
The shooting this month, in which 17-year-old Leverett Dickson was killed, happened after Evans was jumped by two men as he drove to his home in the 300 block of Edsel.
He said the men forced him to drive to the First Tennessee Bank at 1200 S. Third, where one went inside to get a withdrawal slip. Dickson, who had a pistol and a .22-caliber rifle, stayed in the car with Evans, who reached under his seat, turned and fired six times at his armed captor.
He said he tried to shoot the other robber, but the $75 gun he bought on a parking lot jammed.
Evans told police the two were the same ones who robbed him of $465 three weeks earlier.
Gibbons said that under state law, a person cannot be charged with not having a gun permit if the gun is used in justifiable self-defense.
-- Lawrence Buser: 529-2385
Source:http://www.commercialappeal.com/mca/local_news/article/0,1426,MCA_437_4028404,00.html
bought himself an illegal handgun which he eventually justifiably used to defend himself from a robbery.