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KOSA reported a Midland County jury sentenced Jamar Yusef Jackson Jr. to life without parole for capital murder.
KOSA reported Nov. 3, 2026, that the 29-year-old was sentenced on one count of capital murder, multiple victims, in a Dec. 17, 2022, shooting, plus 75 years and a $10,000 fine on a burglary count. NewsWest9 reported the life term and the 75 years and did not print the fine. KMID's headline calls him an Odessa man. NewsWest9 calls him a Midland man.
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Life without parole on the capital-murder count is the term KOSA, NewsWest9, and KMID all print. A $10,000 fine is on KOSA and KMID. NewsWest9 does not print it. Recovering the vehicle because of the cameras, and recovering the evidence because of the cameras, are not the same sentence. One count in 2026, and three capital-murder counts on the 2023 jail account, are not the same charging line.
KOSA, by Tamlyn Price, published Nov. 3, 2026, at 5:10 p.m. CST, reported a jury convicted a man of capital murder and sentenced him to life in prison without parole for his role in a December 2022 shooting that killed two people and wounded a third. It reported that, according to the Midland County District Attorney's Office, 29-year-old Jamar Yusef Jackson Jr. was sentenced for one count of capital murder, multiple victims. It reported the jury also sentenced him to 75 years in prison and a $10,000 fine for burglary of a habitation with intent to commit aggravated assault with a deadly weapon or robbery. It reported that on Dec. 17, 2022, he conspired with Jordan Golden and Shawn Love to enter an apartment on Midland Drive, and that the three shot and killed two people and wounded a third. It reported the two co-defendants previously pleaded guilty. NewsWest9, by Darrell Ponder, published at 5:04 p.m. CST the same day, reported a 29-year-old Midland man was convicted by a jury and sentenced to life in prison without parole Tuesday, and that Jamar Yusef Jackson Jr. was additionally sentenced to 75 years for that burglary count. NewsWest9 does not print a $10,000 fine. It does not print the words one count or multiple victims. Its opening calls the case a double capital murder conviction. One count of capital murder, multiple victims, on KOSA, and a double capital murder conviction, on NewsWest9, are not the same label. A Midland man, on NewsWest9, is not a hometown KOSA prints.
KMID, in a story by Erica Miller read on Yahoo News and timestamped Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2026, at 5:57 p.m. EST, reported a 29-year-old man was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole Tuesday after a jury convicted him of capital murder. The headline calls him an Odessa man. Odessa, in that headline, and Midland, on NewsWest9, are not the same city. The body does not print either city as his home. It reported he was convicted in the 385th District Court, and that he was also sentenced to 75 years and fined $10,000 on the burglary count. KOSA and NewsWest9 do not print the 385th. Without the possibility of parole, on KMID, and without parole, on KOSA and NewsWest9, are not the same three words. KMID reported the charges stem from a December 17, 2022, incident. KOSA's lede says December 2022 and the body says Dec. 17, 2022. NewsWest9 prints Dec. 17, 2022. All three name Jordan Golden and Shawn Love. All three say those two previously pleaded guilty. NewsWest9 spells it pled. KOSA and KMID spell it pleaded.
KOSA reported Flock cameras recorded the vehicle the defendants drove as they left Odessa the night of the killings, tracked it while Jackson drove it to Garland, and that detectives stopped and searched it when the cameras recorded its return to Midland. It reported they recovered blood and DNA evidence even though the defendants tried to clean it, and that the release said detectives were able to recover the vehicle only because of the Flock cameras. NewsWest9 reported the cameras recorded the vehicle the reported suspects were driving in Odessa, tracked it while he drove it to Garland, and that detectives recovered blood and DNA despite the suspects allegedly trying to clean the vehicle and were only able to recover it because of the Flock Cameras. The word allegedly is NewsWest9's. It is not on KOSA's cleaning sentence. Recover the vehicle, on KOSA, and recover it after a sentence about blood and DNA, on NewsWest9, are not the same object. KMID reported investigators credited Flock automated license plate reader cameras, that the cameras recorded the vehicle leaving Odessa and tracked it as he drove it to Garland, and that detectives were able to recover the evidence because of the camera system. Evidence, on KMID, and the vehicle, on KOSA, are not the same recovery. Flock cameras, Flock Cameras, and Flock automated license plate reader cameras are three names for the system. KOSA reported he had prior qualifying felony convictions for aggravated assault with a deadly weapon in 2014 and failure to appear in 2018, so he was a habitual offender. NewsWest9 reported prior felony convictions for those offenses and that the office said this makes him a habitual offender. Qualifying, on KOSA and KMID, is a word NewsWest9 does not print. NewsWest9 and KMID reported the Midland Police Department investigated and that Assistant District Attorneys Kevin Schulz and Henry Eckels prosecuted. KOSA does not print those names.
The Nov. 3 pages do not name the two people who were killed or the person who was wounded. NewsWest9's earlier story, by Marcus Risen, published Dec. 17, 2022, and updated April 7, 2023, reported 20-year-old Anjaya Saddler and 22-year-old Decamren Sims were found dead inside an apartment at the Ranch Apartments, 4315 Neely Ave, after officers arrived around 1:26 a.m. on December 17, and that 21-year-old Deondrick Sims drove himself to a hospital with injuries the story called non-life threatening. An apartment on Midland Drive, on the Nov. 3 pages, and 4315 Neely Ave, on that 2023 story, are not the same address. That story reported Jamar Yusef Jackson Jr., 25, and Shawn Douglas Love, 30, were taken into custody in Dallas by the U.S. Marshals Service North Texas Fugitive Task Force, and that Jackson was then held on three counts of capital murder. Twenty-five, in April 2023, and 29, on Nov. 3, 2026, are not the same age. Three counts, on that jail account, and one count of capital murder, multiple victims, on KOSA's sentencing story, are not the same count. The 2023 story names Jordan Pierre Golden. The Nov. 3 pages name Jordan Golden. The 2023 story's affidavit account of who fired is not the jury's verdict. Tuesday's life term and the 75-year term are what the Nov. 3 pages reported the jury imposed. All defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.
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