The murder of that infant raises disturbing questions about both prison security and how incarcerated gang leaders communicate with one another across the country. Not only did Jackson order the murder from inside a Georgia state prison with a smuggled cellphone, James says, but during the time of the shooting he was in touch with Sex Money Murder’s top two commanders, both of whom were locked up in the federal SuperMax prison in Colorado.
And he says that Jackson ordered KenDarious’s murder in a “inner-gang retaliation” because the baby boy’s uncle had killed a fellow gang member without permission. “Typically, in gang culture you cannot kill another member of the gang unless there’s authorization from higher above,” James says.