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Saturday 15 August 2015
Relatives upset family wasn’t helped before US shooting
JUAN A. LOZANO comment. a joke. ing on?” had with Valerie.”
Associated Press Killed in the shooting were:
HOUSTON (AP) — Relatives Jackson, 40; her husband, At 10:23 a.m., Jackson’s According to the sheriff’s At 12:15 p.m., Jackson’s
of a couple and their six Dwayne Jackson, 50; and
children who were fatally her children, 13-year-old David Conley is escorted out of courtroom in Houston. Conley, who has a violent criminal history,
shot in their home in Hous- Nathaniel, 11-year-old Hon- entered a Houston home through an unlocked window and fatally shot a woman he’d previous-
ton can’t understand why esty, 10-year-old Dwayne, ly dated, her husband and six children, including a boy believed to be his own son, authorities
it took authorities four visits 9-year-old Caleb, 7-year- said. He is charged with capital murder in the deaths.
and repeated emergency old Trinity and 6-year-old
calls before going inside, a Jonah. Authorities say Na- (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)
family friend said Friday. thaniel was Conley’s son
Jesi Greening, a spokes- from his relationship with mother, Barbara Yanske, office, deputies first arrived family is told by the sher-
woman for the family, Valerie Jackson, while the got a private message on at the home at 10:49 a.m. iff’s office that no one re-
shared with reporters Face- Jacksons were the parents Facebook from her daugh- According to Greening, at sponded when deputies
book messages that one of of the other five children. ter that read “911 911 911 11:57 a.m., Jackson sent knocked and they didn’t
the victims, Valerie Jack- The Harris County Sher- 911.” another message to her have probable cause to
son, iff’s Office on Thursday re- At 10:27 a.m., Jackson sent mother saying, “Tuhey knck enter, Greening said.
had sent to her mother in leased a timeline of events another message that said, left.” “How it wasn’t probable
Minnesota saying she was from last weekend’s dead- “He has phone and will “It’s spelled a little bit funny cause when they are be-
being held at gunpoint. ly shooting that showed ring. DVD has gun.” but it’s clearly, ‘They knock ing told that someone has
One of the messages indi- deputies made four sepa- At 10:45 a.m., Yanske re- left,’” Greening said. “That a gun inside, we don’t un-
cated Jackson was alive rate visits to the house over plied, “I called. What’s go- was the last contact we derstand that,” she said.q
after police first visited the about a nine-hour period
home on Aug. 8, Greening before going inside.
said. Deputy Thomas Gilliland, a
“It just doesn’t make sense sheriff’s office spokesman,
to us that the house was didn’t immediately return
not entered much, much a phone call seeking com-
earlier,” Greening said from ment Friday.
Minnesota during a confer- But investigators have
ence call. said that they didn’t have
Jackson’s ex-domestic enough information to go
partner, David Conley, 48, into the home until they
remains jailed, facing capi- saw the body of one of the
tal murder charges in the children through a window
deaths of the six children during the fourth visit.
and two adults. Authorities Greening said that on the
say Conley handcuffed day of the shooting, Valer-
most of the eight family ie Jackson had first made
members and eventually three posts on Facebook,
shot each of them in the writing that she needed
head. His attorney hasn’t help, for someone to call
returned messages seeking police and that this wasn’t
