ATLANTA — The household of a lady who was shot and killed in a dispute allegedly over a bowling ball shared their heartache over her loss and anger over the circumstances that led to her dying, in addition to their aid that the second particular person concerned was arrested this week.

Chatting with 11Alive’s Tracey Amick Peer, the sister of LaKevia Jackson stated she was the household’s “spine.”

“We misplaced any person that was any person particular. That was LaKevia Jackson, she was somewhat bitty individual however had this huge character,” the sister, Yaesha Jackson, stated. “She was the one who did the whole lot for me, my children, my mother, her son. Like she was our spine. In order that they took lots from us.”

Second arrest made in killing of girl who shared youngster with Younger Thug over bowling ball

Yaesha and her mom reacted Thursday to information of the second arrest within the case, of a 24-year-old girl named Imani Spears. A 25-year-old man, Joshua Fleetwood, is accused of capturing Jackson on the Metro Enjoyable Middle in southwest Atlanta final month and was first arrested within the case.

The case has drawn vital consideration partly as a result of Jackson shared a son with rapper Younger Thug.  

Chatting with 11Alive, Yaesha described the circumstances that led to her sister’s dying on the bowling alley and shared her wrestle with the lack of somebody she stated was like her finest buddy.

In keeping with Yaesha, the evening of the capturing, she and LaKevia have been with a gaggle bowling that included a number of youngsters. She stated she was taking part in nicely with a selected bowling ball, and went over to retrieve it when it occurred to feed again out to a different lane.

She claims that lane was the place Fleetwood and Spears had begun bowling, and that her coming over to get her ball acquired them “speaking loopy” and instigating an argument.

After that, she stated, Fleetwood and Spears waited for the group outdoors. She stated he even got here again in a number of instances to see in the event that they have been finished bowling but.

Once they lastly did depart, she stated, they have been nonetheless ready outdoors, and he started capturing on the group – together with the youngsters.

“You waited. You waited ’til we got here out that door. You waited for some girls with children,” she stated. “You scarred these children, as a result of we will not sleep. All we see is that very same scene of my sister laying there breathless.”

She stated that when Fleetwood and Spears drove off, they continued capturing. And, she stated, they have been laughing.

“They laughed at us. They laughed,” she stated. “They laughed whereas my sister was on that floor and that wasn’t humorous. It hurts. Nothing is humorous. Y’all simply took a life.”

She described Fleetwood as a “monster” who couldn’t have a coronary heart.

“He is mindless. He is making an attempt to place out in entrance of a feminine and you are not even caring about these children. As a result of a kind of bullets may have hit these children, then what?” she stated. “You’ll have killed a toddler.”

She stated Younger Thug, who has to not date commented on the killing, was “hurting.” 

“Her youngster is hurting, his household is hurting, our household is hurting. All people is hurting,” she stated. “That was any person that meant lots to everyone.”

Yaesha stated she was visiting LaKevia’s gravesite when she obtained information of the second arrest. She stated that introduced her “a lot peace” however that the loss remains to be extremely tough to course of.

“That is my sister. That is one thing new to me, I miss her. To see my mother harm, to see my children asking about her, her son hurting – he is solely 14. That is not truthful for a kid not to have the ability to have his mother,” she stated. “It isn’t truthful.”