Indianapolis man killed by Memphis police had lengthy criminal history

INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — Torrence Jackson Jr.’s first arrest as an grownup, at age 19, was for dealing marijuana in August 2014.

The years main as much as the Indianapolis man’s deadly encounter with police Thursday evening in Memphis, Tennessee, have been punctuated by a collection of more and more violent habits.

On Thursday, Memphis police had been known as on a report about Jackson trespassing at a library. A couple of minutes later, Jackson obtained into an argument with somebody at a library. Jackson pulled a gun when police tried to speak to him and shot one of many officers. The opposite officer shot and killed Jackson.  

I-Staff discovered information that Jackson was arrested 39 instances by police in Indianapolis He has a historical past of low-level crimes together with disorderly conduct, receiving stolen property, and felony trespassing. From 2015 to 2017, he had at the least eight expenses for felony trespassing and at the least one depend of disorderly conduct.

His felony historical past was punctuated with a number of driving offenses, together with driving with no license, and resisting police throughout these confrontations.

Jackson’s felony exercise grew to become extra aggressive in 2018 and 2019 with plenty of expenses of theft and dealing medication.

In Could 2020, he was arrested on three counts of arson, a depend of intimidation and a depend of resisting regulation enforcement. He served lower than a yr in jail and shortly returned to his felony methods, getting arrested inside weeks on expenses of arson and resisting regulation enforcement.

Jackson was final arrested in September in Indianapolis for theft and resisting arrest; he served lower than two months in jail.

The Tennessee Bureau of Investigations stated Friday it had not reviewed Jackson’s felony historical past.