ROGERS PARK — A man accused of stabbing his mother to death during a fight was leaning against an ambulance and drinking a beer when police found him Tuesday, authorities said.
Jerome Jackson, 24, set his beer down on the hood of a squad car and showed police his hands when they asked, police said.
He was shirtless, covered in blood and had sliced-up hands, they said.
He then told them he stabbed his mother in the face with a knife during a fight in which she attacked him with a plate, police said.
“It wasn’t good,” Jackson allegedly told officers before saying he believed she was dead inside the apartment in the 6200 block of North Bell Avenue, according to police.
Officers kicked down the door to his mother’s Rogers Park apartment, which was locked and mottled with drying blood, after no one responded to their knocks, police said. Inside, they found Jerren Jackson, 53, sprawled on the floor and bleeding from multiple stab wounds to the head and body.
Jerome Jackson, of the 6200 block of North Bell Avenue, was charged with first-degree murder.
A crowd of bystanders pointed police toward Jackson, who had walked away from the scene north up Bell Avenue, shirtless and covered in blood, police said. A female relative who shared an address with Jackson and his mother was seated on the curb, weeping and distraught, when officers arrived, police said.
Jerome Jackson's mother was unresponsive by the time officers reached her. Fire Department paramedics confirmed on scene that she had died from her injuries, according to police. She was taken to Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center where she was officially pronounced dead at 4:49 p.m.
After being charged, Jackson was taken to the hospital for treatment for deep cuts to his hands, police said.
On Monday, Cook County Judge Donald Panarese Jr. ordered Jackson held in lieu of $1.5 million bail.
Erica Demarest contributed to this report.
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