Milwaukee black-on-white murder casts long shadows
It appears crimes have long shadows, at least several years in some cases.
Seandell Jackson killed Nathan Potter in Milwaukee in 2009. Jackson was a convicted felon who had shot someone a few hours before he shot Potter. For the same reason: Of course it was a robbery, but he told the judge he thought he was “having fun.”
Potter was college student at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. By all accounts a gentle soul. A free spirit.
A few hours before Potter’s execution, at least one person dialed 911 to report a couple of sketchy characters lurking around the neighborhood. There had been a robbery there the night before. It was Jackson and his friend. Police never showed.
Jackson and his friend were hunting for victims when they saw Potter leave a bar. They stalked him, accosted him, demanded money and killed him.
After the murder, police wondered if Potter’s “marijuana conviction” from two years before had something to do with it. It did not. But while Milwaukee police pondered what the 21-year old college student did to provoke a couple of thugs, Jackson and his pal were on a bus to Mississippi, courtesy of Jackson’s family.
Jackson’s uncle eventually turned him in. During the questioning, the killer repeatedly referred to his victim as the “little white boy.”
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