Jordan Aris Rashaun Jackson 20, Kankakee, Illinois November 11th 2010

by Carly

It was a few hours after his birthday had ended, he had just turned 20 earlier that night on November 10th 2010. He filled up his friend's gas tank to go drive him to see another friend. His friend was drunk and they made it 34 miles before the driver crashed going 71 miles per hour around a 35 mile an hour curve going into a small town, it was 4am. They hit the only tree large enough in the area to do major damage, the car was wrapped around the tree on Jordan's passenger side and Jordan was killed instantly due to major head trauma. The driver's blood alcohol limit came up as .29, Jordan's toxicology report showed he had barely anything to drink at all and probably had his last drink at about 11pm. He was my little brother and he was taken away from me by a monster. When you drink and drive you should be charged with premeditated murder, because you know what risks you are taking and you are gambling with other's lives. Not only are you playing Russian roulette with YOUR life, you are playing it with any passengers, pedestrians, and other travelers lives, not to mention the hell suffered by the loved ones of the victim. The man who did this survived the accident with hardly a scrape or injury. He should be dead or imprisoned for life. He was in prison for less than 4 months and is out partying again but none of his friends will turn him in. He has killed is free to kill again. He was one of the most intelligent people I have ever met and he was getting smarter every day. He was the most beautiful and amazing person I ever met and he had the most incredible sense of humor and was incredibly charismatic, and I will never see him again and the pain will never go away. I often think about driving my own car into that same tree because it hurts so bad...