James Harris Jackson, 28, left his home in Baltimore, Md., March 17 and took the bus to New York City with the intent to harm Black men. On March 20, he murdered a 66-year-old Black man, Timothy Caughman.
Prosecutors charged Jackson with murder as an act of terrorism in court on Monday. The charge is in addition to the murder as a hate crime charge he’d already been facing. His attorney had no comment, and Jackson did not speak.
“James Jackson prowled the streets of New York for three days in search of a Black person to assassinate in order to launch a campaign of terrorism against our Manhattan community and the values we celebrate,” Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus R. Vance Jr. said in a statement.
