[size=18pt]Michigan v. Jamar Pinkney: Dad kills his teen son Execution Style
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Detroit, MI – On a bitterly cold Sunday last November, 15-year-old Jamar Pinkney Jr. was beaten, forced to strip naked at gunpoint, and marched outside his home into an empty lot. As his mother and grandmother looked on, the teen knelt before his attacker and was shot execution-style in the face. The trigger was pulled by his own father, Jamar Pinkney Sr.

The State of Michigan contends the elder Pinkney made an ultimate choice that day, between his son and his daughter, deciding to end Jamar Jr.’s life because of allegations he’d sexually molested his three-year-old half-sister.

The alleged sexual contact came to light that Saturday, when the three-year-old described to family members what she claimed her half-brother had done to her. She was rushed to the emergency room, but an examination there revealed no signs of assault, and Jamar Jr. emphatically denied having touched her inappropriately. Still, her parents were convinced something had happened; the young girl would not have come up with such ideas on her own.

At 1:30 a.m. that night, the teen woke his mother to make a confession; “I did it.” She put him on the phone with his father to beg forgiveness – but Jamar Sr. was furious and said simply he’d come by the next morning to talk.

Prosecutors say the father arrived at his son’s home that day with the clear intent to kill, likely planning a less conspicuous end for the boy but unable to get him alone because of the watchful eye of his mother, aunt, grandmother, and family friend.

The defense, though, says the man who walked through the door was not a cold and calculating killer, but someone in great turmoil. Over an excruciating period of some twenty hours, Pinkney Sr.’s son had lied, then told half-truths, and finally came clean about vaginally raping his little sister, his attorneys say, causing the father to lose control. (Jamar Jr.’s mother denies that her son said this.) The appropriate verdict, says Pinkney’s defense team, is not murder, but rather manslaughter because of the extreme emotional duress the defendant was under. Jamar Pinkney Sr. will face life in prison without the possibility of parole if convicted.


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