As his fiancee watched, the brother of a prominent Atlanta minister was shot multiple times and killed early Tuesday during a robbery at his home, police said.
Jerrick Jackson, 47, was shot multiple times in the torso inside his northwest Atlanta home, located in the 2400 block of Lowe Street, in a neighborhood off Hollywood Road. Jackson died after being transported to Grady Memorial Hospital, according to police.
Jackson was the younger brother of Bishop Wiley Jackson, founder and pastor of the Gospel Tabernacle Cathedral. In a statement released Tuesday afternoon, Wiley Jackson asked that those responsible for his brother’s death surrender.
“To the young men who committed this senseless act, as a man of faith and a minister of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, I have already forgiven you,” he said. “But I ask you to turn yourselves in so that you can begin the process of true redemption.
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