Woman faces capital charge in May killing
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Texarkana Gazette
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TEXARKANA A woman accused of fatally shooting a man and stealing his truck in May has been formally charged by Miller County prosecutors with capital murder.
Mahogany Jashe Jash Palmer, 21, faces life without the possibility of parole or death by lethal injection if convicted. She is charged in the death of 40-year-old Ernest Jackson.
Palmer is being held without bail in the Miller County jail.
Jackson s body was discovered in the stairwell of his Texarkana apartment May 25. He d been shot once in the chest and had not been seen since May 19, according to a probable cause affidavit.