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    Jamie Emmanuel Townes Sentenced to 15 Years in 2018 AL Murder of Breunia Jennings





    March 15, 2019

    Co-defendant of Dothan pastor indicted on capital murder charge

    By Ken Curtis
    WTVY

    Dothan (WTVY)-- A Houston County grand jury has indicted one of two Dothan men charged with capital murder in the shooting of a woman last year.

    Jamie Emmanuel Townes' and community activist Reverend Kenneth Glasgow are accused of chasing the victim, Brunia Jennings, around the city trying to recover Townes' car. Police say she had stolen the vehicle.

    Glasgow drove Townes and, when they found Jennings, a confrontation occurred and Townes, according to police, shot her. They accuse Glasgow of lying to officers and charged him under Alabama's complicity laws.

    Glasgow, who has not been indicted, is the half-brother former White House advisor and civil rights leader Reverend Al Sharpton.

    Glasgow founded The Ordinary People's Society, also known as TOPS, and lead the fight in Alabama to give convicted felons the right to vote. He is free on $75,000 bond.

    Meanwhile, Townes has been jailed since the shooting last March. He also faces charges he smuggled contraband into the Houston County Jail.

    The indictment against Townes means the grand jury believes there is sufficient evidence to take him to trial.

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    Kenneth Glasgow, pastor charged with capital murder, now accused of assaulting Dothan police officer

    By Christopher Harress
    al.com

    An Alabama pastor who is facing capital murder charges from early 2018 is facing being returned to jail this week after being accused of assaulting a police officer in Dothan Saturday night.

    Kenneth Glasgow, who is the half brother of civil rights activist Al Sharpton, was booked into the Houston County Jail at around 1 a.m. Sunday charged with assault 2nd, unlawful possession of a controlled substance and tampering with physical evidence, according to jail records.

    Houston County prosecutors are preparing documents to revoke the 54-year-old’s bond on the capital murder charges, according to multiple media reports.

    Glasgow was believed to have had a scuffle with a Dothan Police Officer during the arrest, said officials.

    “Allegedly, Mr. Glasgow had an unspecified amount of crack inside his pocket, and as the officer attempted to place Glasgow under arrest a struggle began, injuring the officer. Evidence was also tampered with,” said Dothan police Lt. Doug Magill.

    Glasgow was charged with capital murder in March 2018 after a man who was a passenger in his vehicle fatally shot Breunia Jennings, 23. Glasgow has claimed the severe charge was retribution for his decades of activism around prisoner rights.

    A grand jury has yet to decide on whether to indict him on that charge.

    https://www.al.com/news/2020/01/capi...e-officer.html

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    State takes death penalty off table in 2018 murder case

    By Michele Forehand
    Dothan Eagle

    The Houston County District Attorney’s Office will not seek the death penalty in a capital murder case against a Dothan man in the March 2018 shooting death of Breunia Jennings, 23.

    The capital murder case against Jamie Townes did not meet certain criteria needed for the state to seek the death penalty, said Houston/Henry County District Attorney Pat Jones.

    “In order to seek the death penalty criteria must be met and in this case it does not,” Jones said. “Shooting into an occupied vehicle does not meet the criteria and two are more were not killed. We don’t have the qualifying criteria to utilize in this case to seek the death penalty for Mr. Townes.”

    Townes was indicted March 15, 2019, by a Houston County grand jury and entered a plea of not guilty on April 9.

    Police believe Townes fired the shots that killed Jennings. Another man, community activist Kenneth Glasgow, awaits a decision on indictment by the Houston County grand jury.

    Glasgow was arrested in January and charged with unlawful possession of a controlled substance, second-degree assault, and tampering with physical evidence. Glasgow was out on bond when he was arrested.

    Police say Glasgow drove the vehicle carrying Townes, who officers believe subsequently shot and killed Jennings after he asked Glasgow to help him look for his car, which he believed had been stolen.

    Townes remains at the Houston County Jail.

    A handful of extenuating circumstances trigger a capital-murder charge under Alabama law. A person can be charged with capital murder if the victim was shot inside a vehicle.

    A person convicted of a capital crime can be sentenced to life in prison without parole.

    Dothan police Chief Steve Parrish told the Dothan Eagle that officers were responding to a suspicious vehicle report March 25, 2018, when they arrived at what initially appeared to be an automobile accident on Allen Road near Lake Street.

    Parrish said a closer look indicated a shooting had taken place.

    Jennings suffered a gunshot wound to the head. Several rounds were fired at the vehicle she was driving, but one struck her in the head that caused critical injuries, Parrish said.

    Townes has several previous arrests for drug and theft offenses. He was most recently arrested in 2015 for stealing around $2,000 worth of merchandise from Burlington Coat Factory at Wiregrass Commons Mall. He was sentenced in 2016 to 30 months in prison on the offense and three others.

    Court records indicate he was paroled in Sept. 12, 2016.

    Townes has a status hearing scheduled on Dec. 8.

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    Alabama capital murder charge dropped against Al Sharpton’s prison activist half-brother


    An Alabama grand jury declined to indict the half-brother of civil rights activist Al Sharpton on a 2018 capital murder.

    Court records made public Thursday show the grand jury returned a no bill in the case against the Rev. Kenneth Glasgow, a 55-year-old Alabama pastor who founded founder of the Ordinary People’s Society, a nonprofit focused on criminal justice issues and prison conditions.

    He still faces unrelated charges of drug possession, assault on a police officer, and tampering with physical evidence.

    Glasgow and Jamie Townes, 29, were charged in the killing of 23-year-old Breunia Jennings. She was killed that Sunday night when multiple shots were fired into her vehicle while she was driving o Allen Road.

    Townes was the alleged shooter in the case. Glasgow was charged because he drove Townes to where the shooting happened. Charges have not been dismissed against Townes.

    Glasgow has claimed the capital murder was retribution for his decades of activism around prisoner rights.

    Glasgow was believed to have had a scuffle with a Dothan Police Officer during the 2020 arrest. “Allegedly, Mr. Glasgow had an unspecified amount of crack inside his pocket, and as the officer attempted to place Glasgow under arrest a struggle began, injuring the officer. Evidence was also tampered with,” Dothan police Lt. Doug Magill said at the time.

    A trial date on the other charges has not yet been announced.

    He is still awaiting trial in that case on charges of second-degree assault, unlawful possession of a controlled substance and tampering with physical evidence.


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    Capital murder suspect who was out on bond arrested and charged with robbery

    By Aaron Dixon
    WDHN News

    DOTHAN, Ala. (WDHN) — On Sunday morning, Dothan Police arrested a capital murder suspect who was out on bond and charged him with robbery.

    Police arrested Jamie Townes, who is accused of killing Breunia Jennings in March of 2018.

    According to jail records, police charged Townes with third-degree robbery. Records also state that he was arrested at 5:30 a.m. Sunday morning and has since been transferred to the Houston County Jail. No bond has been set for his latest charge.

    Townes was released on bond for his capital murder charge in July of 2021. He is set to have a hearing for his capital murder case in March and his jury trial is set for June.

    When Townes was released on bond in 2021 he was required to wear an ankle monitor and last year the prosecutors in the case asked to judge to revoke Townes’ bond because they feel he was going against the bond agreement and that according to Townes’ ankle monitor, he was in Florida. The judge denied the request to revoke the bond.

    In August of last year, Townes’ attorney asked the judge if Townes could travel across state lines to Atlanta for a preplanned vacation, and that request was approved by the judge.

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    Plea deal nets accused killer Jamie Townes 15 years

    Houston County District Attorney Russ Goodman said he made the deal at the request of shooting victim Breunia Jenning’s mother, Lakesia Reaves

    By Ken Curtis
    WTVY News

    DOTHAN, Ala. (WTVY) -After a four-day Capital Murder trial and as jury deliberations neared, Jamie Townes agreed to plead guilty to the lesser charge of manslaughter on Friday.

    Houston County District Attorney Russ Goodman said he made the deal at the request of shooting victim Breunia Jenning’s mother, Lakesia Reaves.

    “She was at peace and wanted this to happen,” he said of the bargain that sent Townes to serve a 15-year sentence. “She did not want Mr. Townes to spend the remainder of his life in prison and she had forgiven him.”

    For Reaves, a burden is lifted.

    “It’s been five-and-a-half years that I have dwelled on this, cried a million nights, prayed a million nights,” Reaves told News4 after she left the courtroom.

    Police charged Townes in March 2018 with shooting the 23-year-old Jennings, who had stolen his car that night.

    Houston County Assistant District Attorney Seth Brooks told jurors in opening arguments that Townes used his cell phone to locate his vehicle after meeting with a controversial Dothan pastor who gave him a ride to track down his car.

    Toxicology reports confirmed illegal drugs in Jenning’s system, when Townes shot--he claims in self-defense-- her during their confrontation.

    For Townes, the deal means a few years locked up when he would have received life without parole had he been convicted of Capital Murder.

    “We don’t know what the outcome of the case would have been,” said defense attorney Adam Parker of his endorsement of the plea agreement. “I think it was anybody’s case and up in the air.”

    He called it among the strangest, with Townes and Reaves hugging and crying together.

    Reaves said she believed the jury would have returned a manslaughter conviction had it deliberated.

    “We made the deal and I feel at peace,” she said.

    Breunia Jennings was 23-years-old who her mother described as a “very smart child.” Standing beside Goodman, she praised how he handled the case as Reaves remembered her daughter.

    “I miss her laughs, I miss her being here with me,” she recalled.

    Townes, who at 31 has been in and out of trouble, escaped a possible life sentence and could serve only a few years before his parole.

    “I think he is a changed person and will do good going forward,” Parker said.

    However, Townes has a pending robbery charge related to his arrest by Dothan police this year while on bond but not wearing a court-ordered ankle monitor.

    The pastor who gave Townes a ride to search for his car, Kenneth Glasgow, was cleared by grand jurors but is serving time on unrelated charges.

    https://www.wtvy.com/2023/09/15/plea...wnes-15-years/
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    Jamie Townes receives second plea deal in two weeks

    By Ken Curtis
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    DOTHAN, Ala. (WTVY) - Convicted killer Jamie Emmanuel Townes closed out years of criminal court cases when he pleaded guilty Monday to a misdemeanor theft charge, which prosecutors and a judge reduced from felony robbery.

    He received a 12-month sentence that Townes will serve concurrently with a 15-year manslaughter term handed down this month, attorney Adam Parker told News4.

    The robbery charge stemmed from an altercation with a woman in February while Townes was on Capital Murder bond for the Dothan shooting of 21-year-old Breunia Jennings.

    On September 14, as the jury prepared to deliberate his fate on that charge, Townes accepted an agreement to plead guilty to the less serious manslaughter charge.

    “(Breunia’s mother) was at peace and wanted this to happen,” Russ said of the agreement. “She did not want Mr. Townes to spend the remainder of his life in prison and she had forgiven him.”

    Townes arrest in February drew criticism because he had no ankle monitor, though a judge ordered he wear one.

    https://www.wtvy.com/2023/09/27/jami...eal-two-weeks/
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