DA: Gang member sentenced after various crimes, shooting in Farmersville
FARMERSVILLE, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) – A 26-year-old has been sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole for violent crimes spanning from 2017 to 2019, including murder, according to the District Attorney’s Office of Tulare County.
According to the DA, on April 19, 2017, Jermon Jackson, 26, and other gang members conducted a drive-by shooting of rival gang members in the parking lot of an Ivanhoe apartment complex. One individual was hit and taken to the hospital where they were treated. Three days later on April 22, 2017, at 4 p.m., Jackson and two other gang members were in a car when they came upon a suspected rival gang member walking on the street in Ivanhoe.
The DA says the car circled around the block before Jackson and another gang member opened fire on the victim and killed him.
On Dec. 28, 2019, the DA says Jackson was involved in a drive-by shooting at a residence in Farmersville. No one was hurt, but the shooting caused property damage.
According to officials, through an investigation using cell phones, witness accounts, ballistic evidence, and prior contacts with Jackson, law enforcement was able to arrest him.
The DA says on Sept. 13, 2023, the jury convicted Jackson of murder, two counts of attempted murder, shooting at an inhabited dwelling, and three counts of assault with a semiautomatic firearm. The jury found true the special circumstance of drive-by murder and the special allegations including that the crimes were violent, employed planning and sophistication, that a firearm was used and the crimes caused great bodily injury.
Officials say in a separate verdict, the jury convicted Jackson of two counts of criminal gang conspiracy the special circumstance of street gang murder, and found true that numerous crimes were committed to benefit a criminal street gang.
According to the DA, while in custody in November 2021, Jackson committed an assault on another inmate with an improvised knife. In February of 2024, Jackson pleaded to assault with a deadly weapon and the special allegations that he inflicted great bodily injury and the crime was the benefit of a criminal street gang.
Jackson was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole for violent crimes on May 3, 2024, in Department 10 of the Tulare County Superior Court.
