http://www.myfoxhouston.com/dpp/news/local/100217-blueberry-homicide
HOUSTON - When he woke up Wednesday morning, life was being pretty good to Roosevelt Jackson Sr.
His 23-year-old son had just moved back in with him, determined to escape his troubled past, and had even joined a church youth group.
But as Jackson sipped his morning cup of coffee, the phone rang.
"I got the details when I got here and seen my son over on the ground, which is not a good feeling," said Jackson.
A white sheet covered his son's body, but wasn't large enough to hide his son's shoes. The boy Jackson gave his name to was gone- shot and killed by a homeowner who woke up to find the younger Jackson crawling through his bedroom window.
"(Jackson Jr.) was obviously in the house uninvited," said Detective M.F. Waters, of the Houston Police Department. Per policy, the case will now be turned over to a grand jury, but investigators said it looked like a clear cut case of a homeowner protecting his property.
A grieving father agreed.
"I'm looking at him on the ground," said Jackson. "He's got to be responsible if he's on the ground."
With his pastor at his side, and his boy's body in plain view, Jackson refused to blame the homeowner.
"A lot of times people make excuses because they don't want to accept reality," said Pastor T. Leon Preston II, as he comforted Jackson. "We teach in our church you have to be responsible for your own actions."
"What can I say?" said Jackson. "That wasn't his house."
But there was still a longing for the grown child whose body lay still under the sheet. Jackson wished for one last father son moment.
"I would ask him one thing. What were you thinking? That (would) be the question," said Jackson. "What was he thinking? 'You have a house. What were you doing in that house?' He forgot about Jesus."
"(Jackson Jr.’s) true inward heart's desire was to do the right thing," said Pastor Preston, who welcomed the younger Jackson into his church three weeks ago. "Sometimes there are things out her that snatch you, and hold you, and you can't break free from them."
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