"Infant John" JACKSON - 15 months - (2010) - Marietta GA

Police say a 25-year-old Marietta father killed himself, but still
don't know what caused the death of the 15-month-old infant found with
him.
Police spokeswoman Officer Jenny Murphy says authorities found
Everett Jackson's body Monday afternoon in his apartment. With him was
a boy authorities identified as his son.
Jackson died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
Authorities are awaiting the results of an autopsy to determine how the infant boy died.

MARIETTA, Ga. -- A Marietta mother came home to the horrible sight of her 15-month-old son dead.
Soon after the mother called an ambulance to her Whispering Oaks Apartment, the child’s father committed suicide in a bathroom with a shotgun, police said.
Police said the mother was out of town for a few days and left her three children in the care of their father, 25-year-old Everett Jackson.
Detectives are not sure how the toddler died or exactly when. They are waiting on autopsy results.
The mother had two other young children who were staying at home with their father. They were not hurt. Police said they were at a neighbor’s home when Jackson committed suicide.
Police said Jackson’s suicide raises questions about his involvement in his son's death.
Neighbors said the deaths have turned the Whispering Oaks community upside down.
Jackson’s friend, Cecily Howell, said he was a loving father who would do anything for his children. Howell and other neighbors said they can't imagine Jackson would hurt his child or himself.
"Not him, of anybody not him,” said Howell. “Everybody here knows him. It's not like he was a loner, everyone knows him. He's always outside playing with his kids and walking with his little boy and we just don't understand."
Neighbors and friends told reporters the death of Jackson's son had to have been an accident.

"If something could've happened to the baby maybe, because I really in my heart don't honestly believe [Jackson] would have hurt that baby."

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Police find father and baby dead


by Brandon Wilson
bwilson@mdjonline.com
February 17, 2010 01:00 AM | 2913 views | 0 | 5 | |

MARIETTA - Police entered a Garrison Road apartment just before noon
Monday and found a deceased 15-month-old in a bedroom and his father in
the bathroom, dead from a self inflicted gunshot wound, Marietta Police
spokeswoman Officer Jenny Murphy said.

The cause of the
toddler's death remains under investigation. Details of the injuries he
sustained were not released since the autopsy is not yet complete.

Murphy
said the father, Everett Jackson, 25, went to a bus station Monday to
pick up the toddler's mother, who was coming in from out of town. The
couple has two other children, who Jackson had dropped off at a
neighbor's apartment before going to the bus station.

When the
mother arrived home, she saw the toddler and called 911. Murphy said it
is unclear when Jackson shot himself, whether it was before or after the
mother called 911.

Murphy said she did not believe Jackson and
the mother were married, but lived together at the apartment, at 28
Garrison Road, Apartment 1, in the Whispering Oaks Apartment Complex in
Marietta.

Their two other children were placed in protective
custody, as a matter of procedure, Murphy said. Murphy was unsure if any
charges will be filed against the mother.

Anyone with any
information on this case is asked to call Marietta Police at
770-794-5300.
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