FROM: Jody Pickens, District Attorney General, 26th Judicial District
On January 7, 2024, officers with the Jackson Police Department were dispatched to the intersection of Gillman and Campbell Street in response to a report of gunshots being fired. Officers located Tyrese Jamall Hardin on the ground with multiple gunshot wounds to his head and body.
Hardin was later pronounced dead from his injuries. In the street near Hardin’s body, officers located multiple spent shell casings.
Jackson Police Department investigators recovered surveillance video from the area of the shooting that depicted the victim walking down the street when several males began to follow him on foot and, eventually, in a gray Ford Fusion. Joshua Jackson-Davenport, 29 years of age, of Jackson, Tennessee, was identified from the video as one of the males following the victim and entering a gray Ford Fusion. Video depicted gunshots being fired from inside the vehicle through the driver’s side toward the victim.
Later that same day Jackson-Davenport was arrested by Jackson Police Officers after a pursuit in which he fled from a gray Ford Fusion in the area of Walmart on Emporium Drive. Arresting officers found a 9mm handgun on Jackson-Davenport that later was matched ballistically to some of the shell casings from the scene of Hardin’s murder.
On September 3, 2024, a Madison County Grand Jury returned an indictment against Jackson-Davenport for the First-Degree Murder of Tyrese Hardin. On March 17, 2025, based upon the evidence collected and the dynamics involved in the case, the defendant was allowed to plead guilty to Second-Degree Murder and receive a sentence of thirty (30) years to serve in the Tennessee Department of Correction.
“Too often now the youth in our community are growing up and joining gangs that treat each other as less than human,” said District Attorney General Jody Pickens. “On January 7, 2024, Joshua Jackson-Davenport decided another human’s life was disposable, and now a significant portion of his life will be spent in prison. Our community must teach young men that there are other ways to find identity and purpose in life aside from membership in criminal street gangs.
“Sadly, it is too late for the defendant to learn that lesson without having to first spend an extended amount of time in prison, and it is too late for the victim in this case to avoid being a victim of gang violence. Many thanks to Assistant District Attorney General Brad Champine, Investigator Ron Pugh and the many patrol officers and investigators of the Jackson Police Department whose careful, diligent work allowed for this resolution.”
