A northeast Nevada man who was originally charged with the 2019 murder of a young child in his care has pleaded guilty to manslaughter within the Indian Country as part of a plea deal with federal prosecutors.
Colon Jackson, 30, a member of the Ely Shoshone tribe, was arrested in August 2019 and charged with first-degree murder in the death of the 3-year-old girl on the Ely reservation, about 30 miles west of the Utah line.
Jackson, whose girlfriend was the victim’s mother, pleaded guilty to the manslaughter charge in Reno last week after the Nevada US Attorney’s office filed the new plea agreement on the lesser charge on December 12. . years in prison, pay a $250,000 fine, and be subject to three years of supervised release.
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Colon Jackson, 30, killed his girlfriend’s 3-year-old daughter, who was in his care in Nevada.
According to the plea agreement, Jackson admitted that “while in a sudden quarrel or in the heat of passion, caused by suitable provocation,” he killed the girl, recklessly “but without malice… by shaking and throwing her body.” .
Jackson had been in jail in White Pine County since a federal grand jury indicted him in August 2019 on one count of first-degree murder. The indictment says the girl’s mother picked her up at a day care center on January 9, 2019, and brought her home so Jackson could care for her while her mother was at work.
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Jackson then phoned her at work and told her that the girl was unconscious. Her mother came home and took the girl to an emergency room before she was flown to a hospital in Salt Lake City, where she died, according to her indictment.
The case was scheduled to go to trial next month in federal court in Reno. Assistant US Attorney Penelope Brady wrote in the Dec. 12 filing that Jackson acknowledges that if she chooses to go to trial rather than plead guilty, prosecutors could prove her guilt beyond a reasonable doubt.
Judge Larry Hicks scheduled formal sentencing for March 9, 2023.
