Tuesday morning at 4:30 am, Maiso Jackson, who resides on Salem Street on the west side of Detroit, was awakened by a man knocking on his door and yelling.
Parts of this encounter were recorded on the homeowner’s Ring doorbell camera, which you can view in the video embedded above.
Jackson opened the door, and was met with a man showing obvious aggression.
“(He was) talking about how someone owed him money, I said no one here owes you money,” Jackson told Fox2 News, looking back at the incident.
“I don’t know what you’re talking about,” he told the man.
The man was insisting that money was owed, and Jackson was unable to reason with him. He began to feel threatened, so he called 911.
While waiting for the authorities to arrive, the man became more violent towards Jackson. He broke a window, and Jackson feared that the destruction would continue. It was at this point Jackson chose to arm himself.
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Jackson has had a gun for eight years and has taken part in gun safety training.
Jackson recalled the events, “I came outside and said you have to leave, you can’t be doing this. So then he reached for his gun and pulled it out. I had to defend myself, I had to shoot him because of that.”
Jackson fired four shots, hitting the man in the chest and killing him.
Jackson was sure that it was the perp’s life or his own, and that if he did not act in self-defense he would have been killed.
Police arrived and put Jackson in cuffs. Jackson willingly followed orders, being aware that even as a lawful gun owner he would be questioned about the incident.
“I was just in shock, he wouldn’t leave. He tried to kill me and I didn’t do nothing to the guy,” Jackson said. “That’s the part that’s kind of sad.”
By sharing this story, Jackson hopes that others can learn a lesson from his experience.
“You have to be on guard, you have to be prepared, You can’t just let people run you over, hurt you, and don’t do nothing about it. You have to defend yourself,” he said.
Jackson was questioned and released without any charges, according to Detroit police. However, Fox2 News reports that a prosecutor will review the case to ensure Jackson’s use of deadly force was lawful.
This is THE U.S.A. We have gradually “been had” since at least the early 1900s. There is NO SUCH THING as an illegal weapon, only instances of illegal acts with said weapon. Remember the 2nd. Amendment. And let all conversations with strangers who come knocking, be through a CLOSED DOOR, until peace is certain!
Mr. Jackson’s leaving his house may throw a bit of a shadow on the self defense plea but Mr. Jackson is a black man. In Detroit that fact should prove a positive with their DA. Fortunately Mr. Jackson was not injured in this confrontation.
GOOD SHOT!
Center Mass.
I pray the marxist regime in Detroit doesn’t persecute (yes, I mean “persecute”) this citizen for exercising his God-given right.
Probably a lawful shooting but from what I gathered, Mr. Jackson left the protection of his house to confront this individual. If that is the case, he made a bad decision both legally and tactically. Your house offers some protection (physically) from danger, so to leave the safe confines of your house is not a good choice. Legally, it will be difficult to use Castle doctrine as a defense since he was outside the house. Also it sounds like he went outside to confront the perp. That will be a tough one to defend also. If the DA finds the shooting justified, the family of the perp can sue Mr. Jackson and he will have a difficult time trying to defend his decision to go outside and engage and kill the loving, upstanding, father/husband, son, who was a pillar of the community. I wish Mr. Jackson all the best. Sounds like a justifiable shooting and I hope the DA sees it that way, but I afraid Mr. Jackson’s problems will not be over for a long time.
You fail to mention that the perp already broke a window that may have given him access to enter the home. The victim approached the perp only in defense of the sanctity of his home. Still a part of the castle doctrine in most states.
You are correct, Billy. When he came out of his house, AND the perp had not yet shown a weapon, he is no longer justifiably protecting anything. He is engaging the perp unnecessarily. I am sure it will be okay, as the perp then produced a weapon, so the man could only assume he had to shoot him, or be shot by him.
If there were other people inside his house, he could justify coming outside out of concern that the perp might force his way inside, and hurt other people. With nobody else in the house, it is hard to justify coming outside.
I feel sad for anyone living in that environment. Crazies living on the same block. I wonder if we will find out how the perp got his weapon. More important, if he got it illegally, will the weapon provider be cited or arrested?
The area of one’s property near the house, where one commonly walks to take care of common tasks associated with living at the property is the curtilage, which most states view as being part of the residence and deserving of as much security as the building.
The Michigan Legislature codified the state’s “stand your ground” laws into statute:
“An individual who has not or is not engaged in the commission of a crime at the time he or she uses deadly force may use deadly force against another individual anywhere he or she has the legal right to be with no duty to retreat if either of the following applies:”
“The individual honestly and reasonably believes that the use of deadly force is necessary to prevent the imminent death of or imminent great bodily harm to himself or herself or to another individual.” MCL 780.972(1)(a).
Thank you, sir, for your outstanding community service! You did more to protect your ‘hood than the DPD did
I am sorry this Gentleman was FORCED to DEFEND himself. Having to end a life IS HARD. I pray the PEACE OF God DESCENDS UPON THIS MAN. Biblically speaking; MURDER IS WRONG! Killing in DEFENSE of self and others is ALLOWED!