Bail set at $1 million for mother charged in her daughter’s death
Brittney Jackson speaks attorney Kenneth Brashier after a court appearance June 20, 2023. Jackson is charged with two counts of first-degree murder, two counts of aggravated child abuse under six, abuse of a corpse, tampering with/ fabricating evidence and filing a false offense report. (Patrick Lantrip/The Daily Memphian file)
Brittney Jackson is charged in the death of Sequoia Samuels, her 4-year-old daughter who found dead last year following a city-wide manhunt after she was allegedly reported missing.
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Sequoia Samuels Brittney JacksonAarron Fleming
Once an intern, he never left, joining the staff full-time in 2022 as an education reporter. He moved to public safety in 2023, where he covered some of the city’s biggest court cases, including the criminal trials for those charged in the deaths of Tyré Nichols and rapper Young Dolph. He also chronicled the Shelby County Jail and the deaths that have occurred at the facility.
He now provides suburban coverage, focusing on DeSoto County and the surrounding municipalities.
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