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Stabbing, robbery of victims who offered to buy homeless man food caught on camera

Two people had a violent encounter with a homeless man in Indiantown after the sheriff’s office said the suspect didn’t like their offer to help.One of the victims captured the brutal attack on camera.

The victims told the Martin County Sheriff’s Office (MCSO) that on August 30, ahomeless man,Jerquavious Jackson, 22, approached one of them while at Post Family Park in Indiantown and asked him for some money.Instead of money, he said he would give Jackson food.

However, according to the sheriff’s office, Jackson did not like this answer and became enraged— violently attacking and stabbing one of the victims. The victim suffered a slash wound to his left leg.

One of the victims, a woman,managed to record video of the attack in apavilion in the park with her cell phone.

“When I looked at that video I think my reaction was the same as everybody who looks at it. It’s pretty horrific. It’s very sad,” said William Snyder, Martin County Sheriff.

Video shows Jackson lifting the second victim off the ground, then body-slamming him to the pavement. After the stabbing, Jackson fled the scene on the victim’s bicycle, according to the sheriff’s office. Luckily, both victims sustained non-life-threatening injuries.

“Unfortunately in America today violence is not unheard of, it just seems to be more commonplace,” Sheriff Snyder said.

Deputies were alerted of the attack just before 8 p.m., and immediately began canvassing the area. MCSO said Jackson was found at a nearby Circle K convenience store, investigators believe he was looking for other victims to rob.

The sheriff’s office said deputies were able to take Jackson into custody without further incident. Jackson was found with a box cutter stained with dried blood. He was arrested and booked into the Martin County Jail for armed robbery, aggravated battery, and possession of drug paraphernalia.

After Jackson was read his Miranda Rights, and deputies said he gave conflicting stories, eventually stating he “sometimes blacked out during incidents like the one that happened in the park.”

The sheriff says having the video in cases like this is important.

“The videotape helped us.We have a great case now. It helped us locate, identify and locate the suspect. And then on the woman’s behalf, she did the best she could. She did take video but we understand that when she was done with the video, she went to the victim’s aid,”Sheriff Snyder explained.

Jackson is being held at the Martin County Jail on $52,000 bond.

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Source: cbs12

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