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Courtroom footage of Reginald Louis Jackson yelling at the judge during his court appearance on April 22 (WTVJ).
A man from Florida, facing charges for a double homicide, unexpectedly left the court on the very day he was supposed to admit guilt.
Reginald Louis Jackson, aged 40, stands accused of first-degree murder, kidnapping, and robbery in the tragic deaths of Annette Anderson, 69, and her grandson, Tyrone Lenard Walker Jr., 20, back in 2013. On Wednesday, Jackson, along with his co-defendant, 39-year-old Roderick Martin, appeared in a Miami-Dade courtroom where both were anticipated to submit guilty pleas.
However, the proceedings took an unexpected twist when Jackson realized his mother was absent from the courtroom audience.
The incident was captured by local NBC affiliate WTVJ, who reported Jackson’s vocal disruption. Both Jackson and Martin had been slated to plead guilty in connection to the double homicide, with Jackson facing a 40-year prison term and Martin a 25-year sentence, contingent on the pleas.
This plea deal aimed to bypass prolonged legal proceedings and eliminate the necessity of a trial for the murders of Anderson and Walker, who were discovered on July 16, 2013. They were found in a Miami residence, bound and gagged, each with a gunshot wound to the back of the head. Anderson was a minister at Jesus People Ministries, while Walker had recently relocated to pursue an electrical engineering program at ITT Institute and was employed at Burger King.
Jackson and Martin were handcuffed to each other when they showed up in court on a day that their cases were not originally scheduled to be heard. The judge agreed to hear their cases since there was an expectation of guilty pleas. However, those pleas were derailed when Jackson looked for members of his family and did not see his mother.
As he started yelling profanities in court, Jackson said his grandmother was at one of his hearings and died three months later. He said it was the last time he ever saw her, and he did not want to take a chance at not seeing his mother again.
“I want my mom,” he said, according to WTVJ.
While still handcuffed to Martin, Jackson started walking out of court, and their plea deals were rejected. Jackson and Martin remain in custody and are due back in court on May 5.