(August 8, 2013) Jackson, TN – Jeremy Jones, of Jackson, entered the guilty plea in Madison County Circuit Court, Division II, to voluntary manslaughter and was sentenced to six years. Jones will be held at the Madison County Jail pending transfer to the Tennessee Department of Correction.
The Clark family was present in the court room and approved the plea offer.
20-year-old Jones' six-year sentence for voluntary manslaughter is consecutive to a seven-year sentence, which he is currently serving for unrelated charges of aggravated assault, reckless endangerment with a deadly weapon, unlawful possession of a firearm and evading arrest. The unrelated crimes all occurred in Jackson in 2012.
Jones' total effective sentence is 13 years in prison.
On Feb. 1, 2012 around 6:10 p.m., Jackson police and EMS responded to a shooting on Lane College's campus at 545 Lane Ave. Clark had been shot in the head. Clark was rushed by ambulance to Jackson-Madison County General Hospital and was pronounced dead at 8:55 a.m. the following day.
The investigation concluded that Clark and Jones were friends and had gone to the campus together. Neither man was a Lane student. Clark was involved in a fist fight with a Lane student near the gymnasium. In response to the fight, Jones pulled out a gun and unintentionally shot and killed Clark.
