Lorain/Elyria, OH
Cops investigate Wilkes Villa assault
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ELYRIA - Police are still investigating why a Lorain man was jumped at the Wilkes Villa apartment complex Saturday night.
Jerrod Jackson, 27, was taken to EMH Regional Medical Center after being assaulted by several people, according to Elyria police Sgt. Richard Ellis. His condition was not available Sunday.
More than a dozen police officers from at least four different area departments were called to the scene about 10:30 p.m.
Witnesses said two gunshots were fired during the fight, but no one was hit.
No one has been charged in the assault, but police did charge Jackson’s brother, Jermaine Jackson, 25, with obstructing official business.
“Jermaine Jackson, who did not identify himself as the victim’s brother, was giving police a hard time, saying he knew who did it but wasn’t going to tell anyone and he was trying to get to (his brother),” Ellis said.
Police are still looking for the assailants and whoever fired the shots, Ellis said. He said police had the area under control by 11 p.m.
Jerrod Jackson has a criminal record and most recently was convicted of sexual battery in Lorain County Common Pleas Court last year, for which he received three years probation, court records show.
He also has past convictions for assault on a police officer, resisting arrest and intimidation stemming from a single incident, for which he was given a year in prison.
In addition to Elyria police, officers from North Ridgeville and Oberlin, and deputies from the Sheriff’s Office responded to break up the fight. Elyria firefighters were also called but were called off after it was determined they were not needed.
Contact Adam Wright at 329-7129 or awright@chroniclet.com.
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“Jermaine Jackson, who did not identify himself as the victim’s brother, was giving police a hard time, saying he knew who did it but wasn’t going to tell anyone…”
The “victim’s” own brother doesn’t want to assist the police, so how much cooperation do you think the rest of the residents are willing to offer?
If I was a cop on a call of shots fired at that location, I’d surely take my sweet time getting there.
I mean, it would be like a Quentin Tarantino movie where thousands or rounds are fired off, dead bodies and severed limbs all over the parking lot, and nary a cop in sight, if I had my way.
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thats why the choice is NOT yours Dan.
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Yeah… *that* and about a million other very good reasons.
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What you may not realize is that the person who was shooting probably doesn’t even live in here. Not everyone from the “projects” carry guns!!I live here with my kids because I am trying to do the best that I can. Yes, my kids were in bed at the time of the fight but others did have there kids out. What would have happened if the cops had not showed up when they did and the bullet that this idiot shot in the air came back down and hit one of those innocent kids??Now not only was there an adult in the hospital because they didn’t know how to control themselves while drinking but now a child would be injured and maybe dead. Let’s leave the important decisions to the cops. Not everyone here just loves living in the place but if it’s the best we can do for our kids then we may have no choice.
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Dan S. that right its your choice but you don’t live here.
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Surprise… surprise DonT…
Projects are pretty much the same all across the country.
Projects and bars in the inner city.
You can find a guy in the middle of a courtyard, parking lot, dance floor, with holes in him where all the blood leaked out, and out of the hundred or so people who bothered to stick around until the cops showed up, they were all in the bathroom, or up in their auun-tee’s house watching television and didn’t see a thing.
If these freaking dirt stupid fools think talking to he cops, who are actually trying to make their miserable lives better, is being a rat, then let them live in their box, and keep feedin’ ‘em. Eventually, they’ll start eating each other.
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that even happens in the “good” neighborhoods….lol
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DONTCARE lives in a very small box. Why is it so d*mn difficult for so many to understand percentages? Truth is like kryptonite to people like you. Deny what you will, but facts speak louder than denials and don’t make one appear stupid.
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