On the morning of June 15, 2021, three members of a Cedar Rapids family were found shot to death inside their Oak Leaf Court NE home. Nineteen-year-old Sabrina Hana Jackson, her father Jan Perry Jackson, 61, and her mother Melissa Ferne Jackson, 68, were discovered dead after a 911 call from the residence. The caller, Sabrina’s 20-year-old brother Alexander Ken Jackson, said a masked intruder had broken in, shot him in the foot, and attacked the family; Alexander was treated at a hospital for a foot wound.

Investigators found no signs of forced entry at the house the family had occupied for about a decade and soon focused on Alexander’s account. He was arrested and charged with three counts of first-degree murder. Reports at trial presented a possible motive that Alexander’s father had recently told him to get a job or move out. Alexander denied responsibility; he was convicted of all three counts in January 2023.