Jeremiah jackson, so worried that after living in the house for just one week, she was planning to move out. Just didnt happen in time. There may have been a prior contact with the individual and she thought her best interests to leave that home. Reporter 22year old jackson who lived down the hall way now charged with strangling the victim after a prolong beating during which he tried to extract bank card information from her. The body of the araujo, a recent graduate of the Art Institute of philadelphia, found on this kensington lot, stuff in the duffle bag, her hand, tied, her head, and feet covered with trash bags. Motive was robbery, and it is believed mr. Jackson believed that she had some monday which her, some cash report. She was a cool girl. She had a lot going for herself. She was respectful. Never thought this would happen. Reporter sources say jackson, whose records show a substantial arrest history has allegedly confessed to the crime, seriously burn as he torched victims
Answers from investigators. You can imagine just how shocking this news is, for them and how devastating it must have been for their daughter who discovered both bodies on the living room floor overnight. Lets roll video. Show you where it happened in the 2500 block of north spangler street in Strawberry Mansion. Neighbors heard that daughter screaming and called 911 just before one. When Police Arrived they found perrys unresponsive and unconscious with no signs of trauma or forced entry into that home. Carbon monoxide has been ruled out but foul play has not. Meanwhile medical Examiners Office will conduct an autopsy and in the meantime Family Members again say they are overwhelmed by what has happened. They have been taking it well because she was matriarch of the family. She was the oldest of the entire family of 12. Im the oldest grand. It is pretty rough. She was the person that everyone leaned on in the family and again they lived in this house for over 40 years. Reporter again,
Last night and discover both bodies dead on the living room floor. It happened in the 2500 block of north spangler street in Strawberry Mansion. Neighbors her the daughter screaming and call 911 just before 1 00. When Police Arrived they found perrys unresponsive and unconscious but with no signs of trauma and no forced entry in that home. The medical Examiners Office will conduct an autopsy and in the meantime Family Members are understandably shocked. They are taking it well because she was matriarch of the family, she was the oldest of the entire family of 12 and again im the older grand. It is pretty rough. She was the person that everyone leaned on in the family and again, they lived in their house for over 40 years. Reporter by the way that nephew that you just heard from is Donald Carlton Deputy Commissioner of the philadelphia streets department. He is one of several Family Members who have gathered here in Strawberry Mansion outside that home again waiting for answers and hopi
Midair at cruising altitude of 33,000 feet. Ukraine government claims jet liner was hit by a missle fired by a ground launcher while russian forest and pro russian accepttition denight involvement, hostile situation on the ground concerns local aviation expert arthur wolk. Lots of Airlines Flight over this area because it is a a trait line to where they wanting to in asia. There were enough warnings out there that there were very sophisticated weapons with tremendous capability to bring down high flying airplanes to me it makes no sense to deliberately fly over a war zone, when that capability exists on the ground. Reporter faa has prohibited u. S. Carriers from flying in that region while Malaysia Airlines says it is investigating the crash, terrorism experts say that this crash will change the dynamic of commercial air liners flying over war zones. Up until this point it appeared that the troubles in Eastern Ukraine were on the ground not in the air. This is a game changer of sorts.
Laura. Eyewitness News Reporter diana rocco is live at police headquarters. What have you learned diana . Reporter jessica they werent roommates but police say laura and the man now charged with her murder rented rooms right next to each other and that she was scared for her life in the days leading up to her death after a run in with this house mate. Tonight he is charged with her murder. Police now say 22 year old Jeremiah Jackson confessed to the murder of laura. Mr. Jackson motive was robbery and it is believe mr. Jackson believed that she had some money with her. A large amount of cash. Reporter detectives removed evidence from the West Philadelphia home where the two rented rooms next to each other. Thats the place Police Say Jackson killed 23 year old Art Institute in the early hours of monday morning before putting her in a dufflebag and leaving her body on a street. Police say jackson drove her car to a south philly street and it will it on fire. He was taken into custody afte