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    Nikko Allen Jenkins - Nebraska Death Row




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    Jenkins Now Also Charged With Four Murders

    Nikko Jenkins has been charged with four counts of first-degree murder in the deaths of Andrea Kruger, Curtis Bradford, Juan Uribe-Pena and Jorge Cajiga-Ruiz.

    "Jenkins was an indiscriminate killer since being released from prison on July 30th," said Omaha Police Chief Todd Schmaderer, who added during Wednesday's news conference that law enforcement continues to look at other individuals who may have been involved in the murders.

    The bodies of 26-year-old Juan Uribe-Pena and 29-year-old Jorge Cajiga-Ruiz were found in a pickup in Spring Lake Park near 18th and F streets on August 11th; 22-year-old Curtis Bradford was found near 18th and Clark on August 19th and 33-year-old Andrea Kruger was found at North 168th and Fort streets on August 21st. All had been shot to death.

    Chief Schmaderer said Omaha police and the Douglas County Sheriff's Department worked together to connect the cases. Sheriff Tim Dunning said evidence from each murder connects the cases to Jenkins.

    Schmaderer added that while some of the murders were random in nature, others were not. He said he could not say why the victims were killed since the investigation into the possible involvement of others is ongoing. Officials said Jenkins and Bradford knew one another and may have done time together in prison. The chief added that Jenkins is a suspect in other crimes, but did not elaborate further.

    Jenkins is scheduled to be arraigned on the murder charges Thursday afternoon.

    A judge had set bond at 10 percent of $500,000 on Tuesday after the 26-year-old Jenkins was charged with making terroristic threats and possession of a firearm by a prohibited person. His mother, Laurie, and sister, Melonie, also appeared in court Tuesday to face tampering charges. Laurie's bond was set at $150,000 while Melonie's was set at $250,000.

    Jenkins' other sister, Erica, and a friend, Christine Bordeaux, also face charges, but were not expected to appear in court until Wednesday.

    Before the judge even read the court instructions inside the Douglas County jail Tuesday afternoon, Nikko started explaining how his constitutional rights were being violated. The judge told him it's an issue for another day.

    Deputy County Attorney Chad Brown told the court that it's the state's intention to charge Jenkins as an habitual criminal. Jenkins will go to court for two guns charges on Wednesday. He informed the court that he will represent himself.

    When most suspects say very little at bond review, Jenkins continued to talk. He told the court that the victim had planned to withdraw statements that he had threatened her and her family. "At no point did I threaten her," he said, explaining it didn't make sense considering she had his name tattooed on her face. This from a man whose own face is covered in tattoos.

    Nikko's wife, Chalonda Jenkins, sat inside the jail courtroom where the public is separated by glass. She declined to comment following the bond hearings.

    Three years ago, she wrote the court a letter because he wanted a divorce. She told the court, "I stick by my husband's side through thick and thin." In that letter, she described another woman as Jenkin's "sugar momma" and the "sugar momma" was the cause of the family problems.

    Three years later, that woman is the one who says Jenkins and his family are threatening her life. For that, Nikko was arrested for making terroristic threats.

    An Omaha police report says he threatened to kill her and her family and promised to send "demonic forces" to her mother's residence. Investigators say Nikko, his mother Laurie and sister Melonie, all called the woman to "go to OPD and drop the charges or we will hurt you and your family." Laurie and Melonie have been charged with witness tampering.

    The victim told investigators she had been followed and called repeatedly to drop the case and is "extremely scared." Chalonda Jenkins, in court documents, said her husband Nikko "has a lot of mental disorders."

    Jenkins served half his robbery sentence of 21 years. Despite trying to escape and biting a corrections officer, he still qualified for the "Good Time Law." Without it , he'd still be in prison.

    "It doesn't make sense to have a guideline like that which applies to everyone across the board," said Nebraska state Sen. Jeremy Nordquist. "There needs to be more discretion used by the department."

    We caught up with Nordquist and fellow state Sen. Health Mello during the Labor Day Parade. Both say prison overcrowding and the issues that surround it will be top priorities when the Legislature convenes in January.

    "The Good Time Law and the conversations going on with it, as we know, there are violent criminals that need to stay in our Department of Corrections longer," said Mello, who fears if the state doesn't figure out a way to release non-violent offenders, the federal government will step in and all sorts of offenders could be walking out of Nebraska prisons.

    Some experts wonder how there can be overcrowding when someone like Nikko Jenkins with such a violent past gets out early with no supervision.

    http://www.wowt.com/news/headlines/J...222100821.html
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    Jenkins' Criminal History

    January 22, 2003 - Robbery, confined to jail

    January 22, 2003 - Use of a weapon to commit a felony, confined to jail

    January 26, 2003 - Robbery, confined to jail

    December 14, 2005 - 2nd degree assault, confined to jail

    February 13, 2010 - 3rd degree assault on an officer or health care professional, confined to jail

    April 15, 2011 - Habitual criminal, dismissed by court

    August 31, 2013 - Terroristic threat

    August 31, 2013 - Weapon: possession by prohibited person (two counts)

    September 4, 2013 - 1st degree murder (four counts)

    September 4, 2013 - Use of a weapon to commit a felony (four counts)

    September 4, 2013 - Possession of a gun by a prohibited person (four counts)

    http://www.wowt.com/news/headlines/J...222100821.html
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    Man pleads not guilty to 4 Omaha slayings

    A former prison inmate charged with killing four people in Omaha pleaded not guilty on Wednesday.

    Nikko Jenkins, 27, was arraigned in Douglas County District Court on four counts of first-degree murder and 10 weapons counts.

    Authorities say Jenkins killed all four victims within a month of leaving prison on July 30. He had served more than a decade for robbery, assault and weapons convictions.

    The killings and subsequent accusations against Jenkins ignited calls to reform the state's "good time" system, which gives prisoners a day of credit for every day they spend behind bars.

    Jenkins had threatened violence while incarcerated and had begged state corrections officials to commit him to a mental health institution.

    At Jenkins' preliminary hearing Oct. 1, two investigators testified that in September interviews Jenkins confessed to the slayings. They reported that he said voices and commands from an Egyptian god made him to kill the four.

    Police have said robbery likely was the motive.

    Douglas County Attorney Don Kleine has said he'll seek the death penalty for Jenkins.

    Police say Jenkins used a sawed-off 12-gauge shotgun loaded with deer slugs on Aug. 11 to kill Jorge Cajiga-Ruiz, 29, and Juan Uribe-Pena, 26, whose bodies were found inside a pickup truck in southeast Omaha. Police say he used a small-caliber gun to kill a onetime prison acquaintance, 22-year-old Curtis Bradford, on Aug. 19. Then on Aug. 21, authorities say, he pulled 33-year-old Andrea Kruger from her SUV as she drove home from work after midnight and shot her four times before speeding off in her vehicle.

    Jenkins' attorney, public defender Thomas Riley, hinted at an insanity defense during the preliminary hearing when he asked the investigators about whether they were aware of Jenkins' possible mental health problems.

    Kleine said certain aspects of the killings — such as an attempt to burn Kruger's vehicle — showed that the assailant knew the killings were wrong. Nebraska law requires a defendant using an insanity defense to prove he or she was mentally ill at the time of the crime and too incapacitated by mental illness to understand that a crime was being committed or to understand right from wrong.

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    Judge issues ruling in Anthony Wells case

    A judge has decided the fate of a man accused of being a prohibited person in possession of a firearm -- the firearm prosecutors say Nikko Jenkins received hours after his release from prison.

    In a bench trial, Judge Peter Bataillon said based on beyond reasonable doubt, Anthony Wells is not guilty.

    "There are no clean hands in this case. You have three kids. You shouldn’t be around these people. You should be at home supporting your kids,” said Bataillion.

    -- Video: Judge finds Anthony Wells not guilty in Jenkins' case

    Prosecutors argued that Wells handed Jenkins a .12-gauge shotgun at a party the night Jenkins was released from prison.

    The judge said he looked for how the gun got into the motel. He said Wells was seen on video entering the motel three times, but could not see in the video that Wells brought in the gun. He said there was no evidence.

    But the defense said it was actually Jenkins' ex-girlfriend, Sherry Floyd, who brought the gun to the Travel Lodge at 72nd and Grover streets and gave it to Jenkins.

    According to the video, Floyd, who admitted she had the gun at one time, was also seen entering the motel with a number of bags.

    Jenkins is charged with four counts of first-degree murder in the August 2013 deaths of Juan Uribe-Pena, Jorge Cajiga-Ruiz, Curtis Bradford and Andrea Kruger.

    Wells will not be released from jail just yet. He has two holds on him.

    Read more: http://www.ketv.com/news/judge-issue...#ixzz2vpxyqsUZ
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    Recordings of Nikko Jenkins' Confession Released

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    With the guilty verdict in hand for Nikko Jenkins, Judge Peter Bataillon released the video recordings of the confession on Thursday.

    It's not set in stone but it seems August 11th may be the date when a three-judge panel convenes to decide whether Jenkins gets the death penalty for the murders of four people last summer.

    Jenkins has called our newsroom several times since his August arrest. We heard from him then, and now for the first time, we hear him talk to detectives.

    The confession of Nikko Jenkins began at 7:24 p.m. on September 3, 2013 at Omaha Police headquarters.

    “This is going to be a long night," he said.

    From Douglas County Sheriff's investigators to Omaha Homicide Detectives, Nikko Jenkins spent more than nine hours in the box.

    “I'm going to give you A to Z,” he told them. “This is no goose chase.”

    But it was a goose chase in the beginning. He began by telling investigators that two brothers murdered Andrea Kruger at 168th and Fort.

    "They were looking to idolize me and bring back a trophy. It was a trophy killing," he said.

    He claimed they were first-time killers and made mistakes.

    “They're going to do stupid things like keeping the windows up. When you burn a car, fire has to breathe. You see what I'm saying."

    The scenario did happen. Andrea Kruger's car was dumped in North Omaha but investigators say it was Nikko Jenkins' uncle, Warren Levering, who did it.

    Leading up to that, Jenkins told investigators, “The night that young woman was killed. It was the night of the concert, 2 Chainz, Lil Wayne, T.I. came. It was the perfect opportunity."

    Detectives learned that the SUV was needed for a plan to rob people downtown. At first Jenkins said it was the work of someone else.

    “I was not there at the crime."

    But he eventually opened up about the Kruger case saying, “She was targeted. I will say that much."

    Explaining how Fort Street, without traffic signals, provided cover for the getaway, Jenkins told investigators, “Basically, like I said, it was a carjacking. It was a strategic carjacking of murder. There was no money involved. It was a ritualistic killing and carjacking."

    Over the course of more than nine hours of questioning, Jenkins walked through his role in the murders of four people in 10 days last August: Juan Uribe-Pena; Jorge Cajiga-Ruiz; Curtis Bradford; Andrea Kruger.

    His bravado we're accustomed to seeing at the courthouse had worn down to a whisper. He was hard to hear on the microphones in the interrogation room as he confessed.

    It was after 2 a.m. on September 4th, almost seven hours into the interview, that Jenkins finished admitting to the murders.

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    Nikko Jenkins mutilates his face again; mental evaluation ordered

    By Todd Cooper / World-Herald staff writer The Omaha World-Herald

    Nikko Jenkins is not competent to face a death-penalty hearing, a defense psychiatrist says.

    The psychiatrist’s opinion comes amid reports that Jenkins, 27, mutilated his face again.

    Authorities say Jenkins cut his lips, carved above his eyebrows and then smeared blood over his cell at the Lincoln Correctional Center. Jenkins reportedly used a razor blade, though it was not clear how he obtained it.

    Jenkins is awaiting an Aug. 11 death penalty hearing in the Aug. 11, 2013, murder of Jorge Cajiga-Ruiz and Juan Uribe-Pena, the Aug. 19 murder of Curtis Bradford and the Aug. 21 murder of Andrea Kruger.

    Jenkins has committed similar acts of self-mutilation before — and has reportedly told other inmates in advance that he was going to do it. During an eight-hour interrogation in which he confessed to the killing, Jenkins had detectives feel his facial scars as proof he was insane.

    State psychiatrists have concluded repeatedly that Jenkins is feigning his mental illness.

    Dr. Bruce Gutnik filed a report last month saying Jenkins’ mental state was deteriorating, Douglas County District Judge Peter Bataillon said.

    Bataillon ordered Jenkins to be evaluated by state psychiatrists at the Lincoln Regional Center.

    Regional Center officials have been reluctant to house Jenkins because of the danger he poses. Eric Lewis, another inmate with a history of violence and claims of schizophrenia, attacked and killed his treating physician, Dr. Louis Martin, in July 2007.

    Jenkins’ competency had been in doubt previously. After initially declaring him incompetent, Judge Bataillon reviewed several evaluations and found him competent to stand trial.

    Jenkins eventually pleaded no contest to the charges against him.

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    Nikko Jenkins mutilates his face again; mental evaluation ordered

    By Todd Cooper
    The Omaha World-Herald

    Nikko Jenkins is not competent to face a death-penalty hearing, a defense psychiatrist says.

    The psychiatrist’s opinion comes amid reports that Jenkins, 27, mutilated his face again.

    Authorities say Jenkins cut his lips, carved above his eyebrows and then smeared blood over his cell at the Lincoln Correctional Center. Jenkins reportedly used a razor blade, though it was not clear how he obtained it.

    Jenkins is awaiting an Aug. 11 death penalty hearing in the Aug. 11, 2013, murder of Jorge Cajiga-Ruiz and Juan Uribe-Pena, the Aug. 19 murder of Curtis Bradford and the Aug. 21 murder of Andrea Kruger.

    Jenkins has committed similar acts of self-mutilation before — and has reportedly told other inmates in advance that he was going to do it. During an eight-hour interrogation in which he confessed to the killing, Jenkins had detectives feel his facial scars as proof he was insane.

    State psychiatrists have concluded repeatedly that Jenkins is feigning his mental illness.

    Dr. Bruce Gutnik filed a report last month saying Jenkins’ mental state was deteriorating, Douglas County District Judge Peter Bataillon said.

    Bataillon ordered Jenkins to be evaluated by state psychiatrists at the Lincoln Regional Center.

    Regional Center officials have been reluctant to house Jenkins because of the danger he poses. Eric Lewis, another inmate with a history of violence and claims of schizophrenia, attacked and killed his treating physician, Dr. Louis Martin, in July 2007.

    Jenkins’ competency had been in doubt previously. After initially declaring him incompetent, Judge Bataillon reviewed several evaluations and found him competent to stand trial.

    Jenkins eventually pleaded no contest to the charges against him.

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    No criminal charges for psychologist in Nikko Jenkins’ case

    A special prosecutor has decided not to file charges against a state psychologist in the Nikko Jenkins’ case.

    Jenkins killed four people in Omaha after being released from prison.

    Sen. Ernie Chambers of Omaha accused prison psychologist Mark Weilage of withholding information that could have led to Jenkins undergoing civil commitment rather than release from prison in July of 2013.

    Johnson County Judge Steven Timm appointed Gage County Chief Deputy Attorney Rick Schreiner to review the conduct to Weilage, an assistant behavioral health administrator with the Nebraska Department of Correctional Services, during the time Jenkins served at the Tecumseh state prison.

    Chambers charged that Weilage violated state law by failing to reveal psychiatrist Natalie Baker had diagnosed Weilage as mentally ill and dangerous.

    Weilage did not disclose the diagnosis when Assistant Johnson County Attorney Richard Smith followed up a request from Jenkins’ mother in February of 2013 to file mental health board proceedings against Jenkins. Schreiner concluded Weilage followed state law that doesn’t allow prisoners to undergo evaluation for civil commitment until just prior to their release, which in the Jenkins case came after he was moved from Tecumseh.

    Jenkins eventually was transferred to the prison in Lincoln and then released.

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    In letter, Nikko Jenkins says he wants to plead guilty to all counts in 4 slayings

    Nikko Jenkins wants to plead guilty to the August slayings of four people in the hope that he will shield his victims' families from gruesome crime-scene photos and court testimony.

    The source of that information? Jenkins himself.

    In separate letters to The World-Herald, prosecutors and even the judge overseeing his case, Jenkins said he wants to plead guilty to all first-degree murder and weapons charges in the shooting deaths of Jorge Cajiga-Ruiz and Juan Uribe-Pena in Spring Lake Park, Curtis Bradford near 18th and Clark Streets and Andrea Kruger near 168th and Fort Streets.

    “Please help me help the victums [sic] families of my crimes get closure and please not be exposed to more misery and suffering sorrows of a trial,” Jenkins wrote in a letter received Wednesday by The World-Herald. “I wish to plead guilty to all counts.”

    Jenkins wrote that he sent similar requests to Douglas County Attorney Don Kleine and “my judge” — District Judge Peter Bataillon. Officials confirmed receiving those letters, though they declined to release copies.

    Jenkins' attorney, Public Defender Tom Riley, couldn't be reached for comment Wednesday.

    Jenkins stood silent Oct. 9 when Bataillon asked him to answer to the charges that he killed four people. The judge then entered not guilty pleas on Jenkins' behalf.

    Just because a defendant declares he wants to plead guilty doesn't mean it will happen.

    Defense lawyers are loath to have their clients plead guilty to first-degree murder charges — especially when such a plea could land them on death row.

    Kleine has filed for the death penalty in Jenkins' case. Typically, defense attorneys allow their clients to plead guilty only if prosecutors are willing to take the death penalty off the table.

    Kleine said he wasn't ready to discuss those options yet. He noted that Jenkins' attorneys haven't asked for a plea hearing. Nor has anyone even mentioned plea negotiations, he said.

    Kleine said he also received a letter Wednesday similar to the one Jenkins sent to The World-Herald. He turned it over to Omaha homicide detectives to be booked into evidence against Jenkins.

    The letters were the latest in a line of missives from Jenkins, who has proved himself a prolific letter writer.

    Before his July 30 release from prison, Jenkins wrote a series of letters to prosecutors and judges. The ones written in print were legible and typically raised issues that he was being mistreated in court or in prison.

    The other letters, in cursive, were filled with nonsensical run-on sentences warped into geometric shapes.

    In those, Jenkins claimed to be ruled by an Egyptian serpent demon named “Ahpophis” and warned that he would protect the kingdom with “animalistic savage brutality.”

    The latest letter was a mix of both. Jenkins hit on his previous themes — that he tried to obtain psychiatric treatment in prison on his belief that he was schizophrenic and bipolar. Jenkins claimed that prison officials refused to treat him.

    “I never wished for anyone to be killed,” Jenkins wrote. “I only wanted help psychiatric treatment ... NE State mental health professional failed ... as I requested to be hospitalized numerous times. They had full knowledge of Ahpophis And demonic forces.”

    A state psychiatrist who evaluated Jenkins has written that he believed Jenkins was making up his claims of being commanded by demons. The psychiatrist diagnosed Jenkins as suffering only from antisocial personality disorder — essentially finding that he's a sociopath who would not be amenable to treatment.

    In the latest two-page letter, Jenkins claims to have “repented my sins to God.”

    “I Begg [sic] for His mercy And Grace to Forgive me yet Jesus is convicting me to spare these families traumatization of Seeing the Brutal Facts of what a mentally ill schizophrenic did to their family,” he wrote.

    “The victums' [sic] families do not deserve to see the Brutal nature their family members were killed in crime scene photos that will be largely displayed at trial...''

    Kruger's husband, Michael-Ryan Kruger, was skeptical of Jenkins' intentions — saying the letter gave him “a lot to chew on.”

    Kruger said he is “indifferent” on the death penalty and wouldn't necessarily be dead-set against Jenkins facing a life sentence instead of capital punishment.

    Kruger expressed reservations about his children — daughters Ava, 4, and Hartley, 2, and son Jadyn, 13 *— having to relive their mother's death every time Jenkins came up in a death penalty appeal over the next 20 years.

    As for the trauma of a trial, Kruger said he fully expects at least some of Jenkins' family members — seven are charged — to take their case to trial. Kruger noted that prosecutors have assured him that they will forewarn him any time graphic testimony or photos are approaching.

    “In my opinion, it's a slam-dunk case,” Kruger said. “So it's not like he's saving me from anything. It just makes you wonder if it's another ploy.”

    http://www.omaha.com/article/20131106/NEWS/131109044
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