More than three years ago, looking out a window, Brandon Jackson saw a black car driving toward his family’s Lookout Valley trailer home.
Jackson knew the vehicle. It had a dent on the roof and belonged to Derek Morse.
And Jackson should know – he said he swung a tire iron into the roof five days earlier when he, Jon Morris and a third friend tried to ambush Morse in a Food Lion parking lot over $20.
On this particular night, April 9, 2014, around 7 p.m., Jackson said he watched the vehicle head toward a nearby motorhome where Morris, John Lang, Caleb Boozer and Matthew Callan were hanging out.
Then, he heard gunshots.