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December 4, 2024
District Attorney Daniella Shorter-Levy announced the conviction of Jakobi Wallace for the crime of shooting into a dwelling.
Wallace was sentenced by Judge Tomika H. Irving to serve six (6) years in the custody of the Mississippi Department of Corrections with three (3) years suspended, three (3) years to serve, and two (2) years of supervised probation.
Also, he was ordered to pay court costs of $427.50, a $150.00 investigative fee to the District Attorney’s Office, and $100 to the Crime Victim’s Compensation Fund.
On November 6, 2022, Deondre Marshall was shot in his shoulder while he was at his home in Port Gibson, Mississippi. During the investigation of this matter by the Claiborne County Sheriff’s Department, it was learned that a group of boys including Jakobi Wallace got into an alleged altercation with Dailyn Alexander at a convenience store. After this argument, Wallace and the group of boys pursued Alexander in their car and started shooting at Alexander as he approached Deondre Marshall’s home.
As they approached Marshall’s home, Jakobi Wallace and the other guys began to shoot at Alexander and during this shooting, bullets were fired into the home of Marshall, and he was shot in the arm. As a result of the findings of this investigation, Wallace and the group of boys accompanying him in his vehicle were charged with the crime of shooting into a dwelling.