2022 Racine homicide of Brittany Booker; Terry Jackson pleads no contest

Terry Jackson

Terry Jackson pleaded no contest in Racine County court on Monday, Jan. 5 to four of 23 criminal counts against him, one of those being the April 2022 killing of Brittany Booker. 

In court, Jackson pleaded no contest to first-degree intentional homicide, kidnapping, aggravated battery and attempted first-degree intentional homicide. The court then found Jackson guilty of those four counts. The remaining 19 charges were dismissed and read into the court record for the purposes of sentencing.

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Jackson is scheduled to be sentenced on March 13. 

Jackson had been on the run

What we know:

Prosecutors said Jackson shot and killed Booker, a mother of six, in April 2022. He had been on the run for weeks before he was taken into custody in Chicago the next month.

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Terry Jackson charged, Brittany Booker homicide in Racine

Terry Jackson is charged with 23 counts – including first-degree intentional homicide – in connection to the April killing of Brittany Booker.

Police said Jackson fled to Texas after the homicide. The fugitive investigation for Jackson spanned five states: Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana, Texas and Arizona.

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Authorities said they had identified and charged three women for helping Jackson hide from authorities.

The Source: Information in this post was provided by Wisconsin Circuit Court Access, the criminal complaint associated with this case, and previous FOX6 News coverage. 

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