I finished up my
@ReportingHealth
fellowship with
@USC
last month. Technically, I was a grantee for their Impact Fund for Reporting on Health Equity & Health Systems. ❤️💛
So, here’s me in the backyard with a USC sweatshirt to commemorate the journey.
When you wish upon The Star ⭐️
Say hello to
@indystar
’s newest public safety reporter. Super excited to join this team of outstanding journalists. Send me news tips: Jade.Jackson
@IndyStar
.com 💙
Yesterday was
@Binghuihuang
’s farewell basketball tournament at Brookside Park. I was team captain 🏀 but she’s the real captain around these parts.
She’s going to be missed from IndyStar. The first person to invite me out for coffee 🥰 Good luck with everything Bing!
📌 One year. 60+ newspapers. 250 stories.
One paid fellowship. A couple awards.
One legacy… That shaped & molded me to prepare for the next big story.
Thank you
@IndyRecorder
🖤💛 I’ll be here until May 17.
I’m going to really miss
@IndyRecorder
🥹❤️ This place & this team taught me so much. It’s given me some amazing opportunities & I can only thank them for preparing me for the next chapter.
Excuse me while I go cry 😭
@RaquelWillis_
This statement taught me something new today. "Careerism," is what a lot of journalists should keep in mind as they work so hard to climb this invisible ladder that will never reach a top because of how this system is set up.
Had an amazing time at
@IndianaProSPJ
’s Best in Indiana Journalism Awards. After being a finalist for four categories I won two first place plaques along with a 2nd & 3rd place certificate.
2nd photo shot by
@mykalmphoto
📸 (via my iPhone 🤭)
I need more journalists to be empathetic to families of crime victims.
People are more than just your story & deadline. They’re more than your boss being mad because you’re in competition with the next outlet. How you behave is exactly why they don’t trust us at all.
Had a great time speaking with students at Marian University’s Separating Fact from Fiction in Local News: A Media Literacy Conversation event 💙
Librarian, Jessica Trinoskey invited
@AmeliaPakHarvey
& I for the intimate conversation.
I won first place for
@OurRight2Know
’s 2024 Hoosier State Press Association awards.
One of my old coworkers said I won first place in Best Feature Profile.
I wasn’t there to collect my award but
@IndyRecorder
did 🥰 Next year will be great for y’all!
A fiercely outspoken advocate against gun violence in Indianapolis, Ron Gee was a local fixture at crime scenes & vigils…
Now his family and friends are shocked that he was shot and killed.
Last night I was the emcee for
@MarianUniv
’s 2024 Clayton Family Circle of Honor & Wall of Fame Induction Dinner.
The university’s largest fundraising event for the year to highlight athletics turned out amazing.
One week after IMPD chief said they’re operating with the smallest force in the department's history, the head of the city's police union presented his recommendations to address ongoing staffing woes.
@RickFOP86
OPERATION: Firewall 🔥
She was selfless and would do anything she could to support those she loved. She was a good friend, a good family member. But most importantly, a good mother.
VIDEO: DaJuan Thrasher is the father of 19-year-old Jaden Thrasher who was shot and killed last night near 12th & Grant Street.
@indystar
He’s out here canvassing the neighborhood and asking anybody for information.
S/O to my team
@IndyRecorder
💛🖤
We always say we’re small but mighty & I’m so proud of us for upholding a legacy of greatness every week 📰 For that to be recognized tonight is spectacular.
READ: A prosecutor's 'worst nightmare': Man who crashed Hellcat into family's SUV as they were driving around school shopping just got out of prison. 6 kids & their mother injured.
The family tells me two only kids were able to come home last night.
I'm not in Arkansas anymore, but my favorite officer to shoutout is
@OfficerNorman
❤️ Thank you for all of the work you doing with your method of community policing.
🚔 Today is
#NationalThankaPoliceOfficerDay
🚔
We want to take a moment to thank our IMPD officers & other law enforcement officers who dedicate themselves to serving and protecting our communities everyday.
Let’s take a moment today to recognize their hard work and sacrifice!
Thankful to the
@IndianaProSPJ
&
@spj_tweets
for tonight’s recognition.
First place - Election & Campaign coverage” 🥇
First place - Coverage of Race & Diversity Issues 🥇
Second place - Best Coverage of Children’s Issues” 🥈
Third place - Best Criminal Justice Reporting 🥉
The man in these photos is 29-year-old Gavin Dasaur. He was shot and killed yesterday.
His wife, now widow, tells me the couple JUST got married at the end of June.
To the rest of the city, he was a legend. A community staple whose life left an impact on the people he helped and whose legacy created waves of change against gun violence in Indianapolis.
But to them, he was dad.
The City of Indianapolis and the State of Indiana finalized an agreement to let the city take possession of the former Indiana Women’s prison on the near eastside.
I know folks love rushing to break a story but don’t be the journalist identifying someone before their family even has a chance to.
Make sure you’re connecting with ACTUAL family & not just friends of the family assuming things cause that’s another reason people hate us.
Enjoyed this year’s
@SWEETSandSNACKS
Expo with the
@IndyRecorder
crew. Trust, you don’t want to see how many samples we tried but 🤫 it’s a secret.
Check out my coworker Hanna’s article on it here:
“In my mind, my back is against the wall. I’m wondering how I’m going to be a nurse. I can’t get a job at all. I’m living off my college stipend and grant money,” King said.
“I’m a felon still living in Hillside in this environment.."
STORY: DaJuan Thrasher went door-to-door to homes and businesses looking for information Tuesday trying to understand what happened the night before.
His 19-year-old son, JaDen Thrasher, was shot and killed less than 24 hours earlier.
#HappeningNow
: The balloon release & vigil for Chanti Dixon at Grandville Cooperative.
Dixon was found shot dead earlier this week about 1,000 feet away from where she lived within the apartment complex.
An Uber driver was arrested and charged in her killing.
At the state fair today for the
@indystar
booth near the Hoosier Lottery free stage.
Sign up for our free newsletter or take a photo with our mural & SPIN OUR WHEEL for prizes!
READ: ‘It was like the fast and the furious,’ eight people, including six children were involved in a crash Tuesday afternoon.
Three of the kids are in critical condition with the other children & two adults in stable.
One witness gives his account.
A college student interviewed me for a writing profile assignment for a class and just called me the coolest person ever.
Definitely telling my mom I’m cool now.
#WATCH
: Check out part of the trailer for Crossroad Connections airing August 1, 2024 via
@roadtripnation
.
I’ll be in episode one as you follow three young Hoosiers exploring what our home state has to offer.
You can watch the documentary here:
S/O to the team. Some still here & some gone.
@JournoJay
|
@_timoriac
| Garrett Sims | Hanna Rauworth |
@3Noral
&
@chloe_mcgowanxx
Never worked with
@abri_onyai
but she was a BIG help.
Also I S/O to Ms. Rita, Ms. Jeana, Ms. Crystal, Lystina, Eryn & Mr. Greg.
There were only 4 hijackers on Flight 93. It was set to depart from Newark, NJ to San Fransisco. It took off at 8:42 AM.
4 minutes after the crew was warned about cockpit intrusion & the twin tower attacks.. the hijackers stormed the cockpit.
A timeline of the attack:
September 11, 2001📌
7:49 AM - Flight 11 takes off from Boston Logan
8:15 AM - United Airlines Flight 175 takes off from Boston
8:20 AM - American Airlines Flight 77 takes off from Washington Dulles
8:42 AM - United Airlines Flight 93 takes off from Newark International Airport.
#VIDEO
: A man was arrested after he & three kids, ages 10-14, shot off multiple rounds from a firearm inside the New Bridge “Hillside” apartment complex Saturday morning.
Flight 11 struck the north tower at 8:46 AM.
WARNING GRAPHIC‼️
The sky was crystal clear & blue. The weather was perfect that morning.
This clip was from French film maker brothers who were shooting a documentary in NYC on a probationary firefighter at the time.
Flight 77 ✈️
Charles Burlingame was a former fighter pilot & navy academy graduate. He was survived by his wife, daughter Wendy, grandson Jack, two brothers & a sister.
First Officer David Charlebois was survived by his parents & life partner of 14 years.
Flight 93 crashed in a Shanksville, PA field around 10 a.m. going over 500 MPH. The impact left a huge crater.
The intended target was the capital building.
We remember those on flight 93.
Life doesn’t come with a manual but it does come with a mother. Thank you for always being a guiding light & even without the title of mom, being of such good character.
Happy Mother’s Day 🖤
STORY: The city saw nearly a dozen shootings over the weekend with the violence continuing Monday morning after two separate shootings ended as homicides.
There were 35 air phone calls made on flight 93.
Jeremy Glick told his wife the flight was hijacked by dark-skinned men who looked “Iranian” wearing red bandanas & welding knives.
A dude tried to join IMPD... The man marked yes, on a questionnaire about whether he had ever viewed or downloaded child porn..... His application led to child porn, bestiality charges.
President George W. Bush was in a Florida elementary school classroom when he was approached by his chief of staff, Andrew Card… whispering the chilling news into the president’s ear.
“America is under attack.”
Julious Johnican is facing a charge of neglect of a dependent, a level 6 felony, and is accused of failing to intervene in an altercation that occurred between the students in his classroom at George Washington Carver Montessori IPS
#87
last year.
Otis Keller, 36, was shot and killed Thursday and his fiancé told me that more than anything he put his children first.
A few hours before he was killed, he told his family he was going out to get car parts for a vehicle he was working on for someone.
He's been shot at, dodged traffic on State Road 67, gone missing for three months and been accidentally adopted. But mostly he’s been cuddled and loved.
But now, this small town Indiana cat needs some big help and thoughts & purrs.
Proposal No. 314, on the agenda for Monday, Sept. 23, would impose a penalty on anyone who plans, participates in, or attends "an illegal street racing, motorcycle stunting or reckless driving exhibition."
@HauntTheForest
I don’t t think so. It’s just a stated fact: He was shot and killed and included information about his personal life. You just took it as something else because I didn’t post about the reason why he was killed. This tweet was even posted before details came out.
My great aunt Verdelle passed away this morning 🥹💔 She was 102 years old. The oldest member of our family.
Even at her age, she still had a sharp mind & remembered everything.
I just saw & spoke to her at the repass for her son, my uncle Kenny, last week. RIP Verdelle 🕊️
IMPD's Civilian Use of Force Board oversees potential police misconduct in every instance where an officer uses force — many instances being officer-involved shootings.
READ: ‘It was like the fast and the furious,’ eight people, including six children were involved in a crash Tuesday afternoon.
Three of the kids are in critical condition with the other children & two adults in stable.
One witness gives his account.
The plane dropped 600 feet as passengers were ushered to the back.
The flight was diverted towards DC as passengers were told this over the intercom by Ziad Jarrah:
Three Louisiana predator hunters caught news anchor, Bill Lunn, attempting to meet up with a 15 year old girl.
Lunn tried to claim that he was the victim of an assault & battery.
After seeing this, that man would have had his money back, his cousin back, a free truck AND the entire sheriff’s office.
“The township is yours Terry!” 😂
You’re sheriff now.
#RebelRidge
#AaronPierre
@JournoJay
@_timoriac
@3Noral
@chloe_mcgowanxx
@abri_onyai
S/O to the man in charge, Robert Shegog for giving me an opportunity. He’s truly been like a father to me. I know it’s cheesy when companies say “We’re a family” but this newsroom really did feel like the closest thing 🥹❤️
Several Marion County agencies have presented their budget proposals for the 2025 fiscal year. Here's a look at what some agencies are proposing so far to the Public Safety & Criminal Justice committee.
I in fact did not do anything about it 🤭 He ended up falling trying to do too much. I said, “See. Now you confused and embarrassed.” He ran away to hide.
@IAMJADEJACKSON
Oh my.... I see Onyx in the distance looking to do some damage this morning! Sapphire, "are you gonna do something about this? You know he gonna do what he do." LOL
According an affidavit, the mother was doing chores around the house when her toddler told her, "Mommy, I'm 'bout to go potty." She said OK.
She was in the living room when she heard a loud pop.
He’s spoken with over a dozen neighbors who have supplied intel, camera footage & witness accounts since this morning. He’s given evidence over to IMPD detectives.
He’s been on his feet since first visiting the crime scene around 7 AM.
A 10-year-old girl shot in the stomach. A 7-year-old boy who shot himself through the liver. A 2-year-old boy who shot his finger off.
In each instance, the adults responsible for both the child and securing their firearm received probation.
The Indiana State Fairgrounds is set to celebrate a milestone with a nostalgic twist next month ― and for classic rock fans it's something to shout about.
Exactly 60 years from the day The Beatles performed two shows at the fairgrounds...
I am honored to be the emcee for the
@MarianUniv
Clayton Family Circle of Honor & Wall of Fame Induction dinner 💙💛
I can’t wait to see you all April 24th for a night of athletic excellence ⚽️🏀🏈⚾️🥎🎾🎳🏅🏌🏽🚴🏽⛳️🤼♂️
The 2024 Clayton Family Circle of Honor Induction will be Wednesday, April 24, 2024 at the Marian University Arena and Convocation Center. Learn more here: