Monrovia, Liberia – Samuel P. Jackson has been charged by the Liberia National Police (LNP) in relation to his wife N-tom-bee-keh-yee-seh Innocentia Khumalo, know as Toni Jackson’s death.
According to the police, Mr. Jackson is accused of reckless endangerment, aggravated assault, manslaughter, and negligent homicide. “Based on the totality of evidence, the Liberia National Police has formally charged Mr. Samuel P. Jackson with: Manslaughter, Negligent Homicide, Aggravated Assault, Reckless Endangerment of Another Person.”
At the LNP headquarters in Monrovia on Thursday, Police Inspector General Gregory Coleman informed the public that the witness testimony, photographic evidence, and documented correspondence all provide reliable and confirmed proof that the victim was repeatedly physically abused over time.
He said, the victim was effectively isolated because entry and exit were prohibited, and the last person known to have the victim inside a protected dwelling was Mr. Samuel P. Jackson who is the defendant, and was also the first to enter the locked area and find the victim unconscious and in a pool of blood.
The injuries are consistent with a likely sequence of events: a backward fall brought on by a hard force hit to the chest resulted in serious head trauma, including contusion, laceration, and bleeding. Because it is connected to a series of prior traumatic events, this injury is neither random nor isolated.
IG Coleman said, evidence also shows that the vitim had a known medical vulnerability which occasionally resulted in seizures yet Mr. Jackson continued to provide the stimulant. The victim was left alone and unsupervised in a secured setting. With a predictable risk to life, this is a grave violation of the duty of care.
Police IG Coleman clarified that their job do not determine guilt or replace the legal process with public opinion until the accused is proven guilty in a court of law, they are presumed innocent.
Coleman assures the Liberia public, South African government and the deceased’s family, that the case has been handled with professional integrity, transparency, and respect for international rules of investigation.
This incident of Mrs. Jackson should raise more general concerns that violence in private areas is nonetheless subject to the law while vulnerability strengthens legal protection rather than diminishing rights and when neglect results in injury or death, it is illegal.
