Sam Holton,18 & Trevor Cox,17 killed Jessie Foust & Pharon Jackson,Thanksgiving Day

[MadeaBecBec]

Jessie M. Foust,25 and Pharon Adrian Jackson, 26

Monday afternoon, four days after a relative found the young couple's bodies in the white bungalow, family members went inside the home.

Detectives rolled up crime-scene tape that surrounded the house and escorted the somber-faced relatives through the front door on North Chautauqua.

What the relatives have now is their memories.

Memories of Jessie Foust, a 25-year-old mother who relatives say was scheduled to graduate this month from Wichita State University, with plans to be a social worker.

And memories of Pharon Adrian Jackson, a 26-year-old father who loved rap music, the Oakland Raiders and cars.

Earlier Monday, police announced that they had arrested two young men in the couple's deaths.

Jackson's 20-year-old sister found the bodies Thanksgiving afternoon when the couple didn't show up for a holiday dinner.

Police who responded said the couple's 4-year-old and 18-month-old sons were uninjured and were found wandering around the house where the bodies had been lying for hours.

Police said both men arrested Saturday — an 18-year-old from Sumner County and a 17-year-old from Wichita — remained in custody.

Investigators think the children could have been in a bedroom when the shooting occurred, but they aren't certain, he said.

Police have interviewed the 4-year-old. "He did give us a statement," Stolz said.

Investigators think Jackson knew both suspects and that Jackson and one of the suspects had been involved in a previous transaction involving a gun, Stolz said.

Asked whether there was a motive, Stolz said, "Just plain old stealing, theft," but that detectives continue to look for other motives.

Some items stolen from the house have been recovered, he said.

During the investigation, police have confiscated more than one gun. The two victims appear to have been shot with the same weapon, Stolz said.

Jackson's mother, Iris Jackson, said her son was intelligent and "got along with everybody."

He spent most of his life in Wichita, where he graduated from South High School. Later, he attended Labette Community College. He performed as a rapper, sometimes doing benefit concerts, his mother said. He was a former youth counselor, she said.

Foust's uncle, Vincent Foust, said his niece and Jackson had been together about three years. The 4-year-old boy is Jackson's son, and the 18-month-old boy is the couple's child, Vincent Foust said.

Jessie Foust had been a cheerleader at Junction City High School and had played on the school softball team. Later, she was a cheerleader at Cowley College, her uncle said.

At WSU, she was majoring in social work and was eligible to graduate in December, said WSU spokesman Joe Kleinsasser.

"She was going into social work to help people," Vincent Foust said. "That's the kind of person she was. She would never hurt a flea.

"She does have a family that is heartbroken."

The family wants to ask WSU to grant her degree because she was so close to graduating, her uncle said.

"It would mean a lot," he said.

As for the couple's two young sons, he said, "They have kind of a tough road ahead of them, but they have a lot of family to help."

http://www.kansas.com/news/story/1078100.html

Today, prosecutors with the District Attorney's Office charged Samuel Holton, 18, with two counts of first-degree murder and one count of aggravated robbery.

http://www.kansas.com/topstories/story/1079211.html

Thug teenagers are killing all the "good" people, for what?

[MadeaBecBec]

Sam Holton, 18 (Looks like a little brat)

A 17-year-old became the second person charged with murder in the shootings of a Wichita couple whose bodies were found in their home on Thanksgiving Day.

Prosecutors charged Trevor B. Cox in juvenile court Wednesday with two counts of first-degree murder, one count of aggravated robbery and one count of criminal possession of a firearm by a juvenile.

Coxs bond is $500K

On Tuesday, prosecutors charged Cox's co-defendant — Samuel Holton, 18, of Mulvane — with two counts of first-degree murder and one count of aggravated robbery. Holton's bond has been set at $1 million.

http://www.kansas.com/news/crime-cou...y/1081260.html

[penelopejo]

Thug teenagers are killing all the "good" people, for what?

its' cause they wanted all of this:

http://www.kansas.com/news/crime-cou...y/1081260.html

The murder charges allege that Cox killed Pharon Adrian Jackson, 26, and Jessie M. Foust, 25, during a robbery and that Cox stole clothing, jewelry and a "Blackberry electronic device" from Jackson while armed with a gun.

And they were shot numerous times with their children in the home

Jackson's father, Percy Jackson, said Wednesday that he learned from investigators and from seeing his son's body that his son was shot several times.

"You never see what a violent death is like until it hits you up close," Percy Jackson said.

Percy Jackson said he had just come from a funeral home after helping to make funeral arrangements.

"The amount of times he was shot really hurts. To continually do it... indicates what your intentions were. You have that little regard for a human life."

The slain couple was found in their rental home near Central and Hillside on Thanksgiving afternoon by Jackson's 20-year-old sister, after the pair did not come to a holiday dinner.

Police said the couple's 4-year-old and 18-month-old sons were found wandering around the corner bungalow and that the bodies had been lying inside for several hours. The two boys were not injured.

More at the link.

They deserve whatever they got coming to them. They took 2 lives for clothes, jewelry and a blackberry...

[Misskittychaos]

Jesus, those poor babies! They are both old enough to know something is wrong and to start to be scared and panic when they can't get Mommy and Daddy to wake up...Those two little bastards killed them over nothing really, IMHO. I hope those little kids are able to forget any memory of this horrible event.

[MC30]

omg. such a happy looking couple. rip Pharon Jackson and Jessie Foust. hopefully your angel babies will not remember this...

you both were worth MUCH more than a blackberry...

shit now im gonna cry...

[tretton]

"Thug teenagers are killing all the "good" people, for what?"

What you won't read in the papers and news articles that you all feel so inclined to base your judgements on is that Adrian "Mindright" Jackson was a known Blood gang member and dealt guns and drugs outside of his home. The very same, mind you, those children lived at. Now, what kind of parents deal drugs and weapons out of their homes while their kids play with the new toys that drug money bought them? Those are the type of people that need their kids taken away in the first place. I'm not condoning nor condemning what Trevor Cox, Josh Duque or Sam Holton did (or didn't do)--but seriously--do these really sound like 'good' people to you?

http://www.kansas.com/2010/12/01/161...dmissible.html <- In my honest opinion, from talking with Holton's family and doing my research instead of blindly following what's put in my face to read -- I'm moreso leaning toward Trevor Cox--the Bounty Hunter Blood--killing that couple. I mean, it's whatever. Wichita is going to let the Gang members walk on the streets, hoping they kill each other and then some.

[Valasca]

Yawn.
So how do YOU know all this, tretton? Know the killer? Or just a bystander making judgments?
Thanks for reviving a year old thread, by the way.

[carolinablue]

I'm not condoning nor condemning what Trevor Cox, Josh Duque or Sam Holton did (or didn't do)--but seriously--do these really sound like 'good' people to you?

Oh I'll condemn them alright! I condemn them to live in misery, die screaming and roast in the far corners of hell for eternity. Those knuckle dragging fucktards murdered 2 people in their home while babies were present. That sends them to prison first, then to hell. And, what proof, not your opinion, proof do you have the guy was a gang member dealing drugs out of his house? Any police reports? Any documents at all, or just your pitiful attempt to minimize the crime? And what about Jessie? Was this soon-to-be college graduate also dealing drugs and guns? I don't give a rat's ass; the two pus puddles murdered two people and left two babies alone with their dead bodies. They are murderers and cowards, they stole two lives and left two children orphans. To hell with them.

[Dakota Valkyrie]

Dang! A tard beat me to posting LOL Anyway - here's the highlights.

A judge said Wednesday that if prosecutors take Sam Holton to trial on double murder charges, they will do so without most of the evidence seized at his house — and his confession.

Sedgwick County District Judge David Kaufman ruled that Wichita police illegally entered Holton's home in Mulvane to arrest him in connection with two killings last Thanksgiving.

In doing so, Kaufman said, detectives tainted any evidence they would later obtain, including Holton's admission that he was involved in the shooting deaths of Adrian Jackson and Jessie Foust near Central and Hillside in Wichita.

Kaufman said detectives entered the Mulvane house without a warrant or consent of the residents and illegally arrested Holton, 18.

The judge suppressed property from the dead couple's home found inside Holton's house.

Kaufman also suppressed evidence police took from the house of Trevor Cox, 17, after Holton took detectives there. That includes the murder weapon: a 9mm handgun retrieved from Cox's closet.

Kansas law states residents must give explicit permission to police before they enter a home, Kaufman said.

"They weren't asked to come in, and they didn't ask if they could come in," Kaufman said.
[...]

Although the judge ruled Holton made a voluntary confession at police headquarters, and that police acted properly in interviewing him, the illegal entry made the subsequent statements inadmissible during trial.

Prosecutor Marc Bennett, however, still has statements made to police by Joshua Duque, 16, who is also charged with murder and robbery in the case. Duque has been ordered to stand trial as an adult.

Holton's trial was set for next week, but Bennett said he will ask for a continuance to pursue his options.
[...]

http://www.kansas.com/2010/12/02/161...-evidence.html

[MadeaBecBec]

Adrian's myspace music profile : http://www.myspace.com/mindright Apparently he was a hip-hop artist and his page doesn't glorify the thug life! No colors showing there, just your everyday hip-hop thang! AND, Adrian and Jess, seem to have left behind some sincere friends that loved them, too. AND, their poor babies that will now grow up without them. Jessie Foust was preparing to receive her Bachelors Degree in Social work from Wichita State University, yeah, that sounds like a thugs woman! I am pretty sure these two murders were not gang-related or a rival hit. The three involved, Trevor B. Cox (who pleaded guilty to aiding a felon and misdemeanor theft) Samuel Holton and Josh Duque were just murderous thieves!

A memorial video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-wQpS6nF18g Not one photo of them throwing gang signs or holding big guns!
Posted April 15, 2010:

Sam Holton had said a 17-year-old friend shot Adrian Jackson and Jessie Foust the night before last Thanksgiving.

Craig jumped in.

"Be honest. Did you fire that gun?" Relph remembered his partner asking Holton.

"Yes," Holton said.

Sedgwick County District Judge Anthony Powell ordered Holton to stand trial on two counts of first-degree murder and aggravated robbery. Holton entered a plea of not guilty.

Trevor Cox, 17, and a 15-year-old are also charged with murder as juveniles and are awaiting hearings to determine whether they will be tried as adults in the case.

Holton said he'd met Jackson at a party and had purchased drugs from him. But that night he and Cox just dropped by to "hang out."

Cox went to the bathroom. Jackson walked into the kitchen. Holton said he and Foust were sitting on a couch in the living room.

"What the... homey?" Holton heard Jackson say.

There was a gunshot.

Holton told the detectives he saw Jackson stagger back into the dining area. Then Holton said he heard another shot.

Jackson staggered back toward the couch, fell over a Christmas tree and onto the floor.

Cox "unloads the clip" into Jackson, Holton told the detectives.

Foust started screaming.

Holton said Cox tossed him the gun. Holton said he fumbled it and dropped it.

"Shoot the bitch," Holton said Cox yelled.

Holton told the detectives he picked up the gun, pulled the trigger and shot Foust.

Autopsy reports showed Jackson had seven entrance wounds. Foust was shot once in the back, the report showed.

The detectives worked all Thanksgiving Day and through the next night. Relph said he managed to go home for a couple of hours before he received a call from a Sedgwick County Sheriff's deputy.

Deputy Justin Antle explained he was a friend of the Holton family, Relph testified. A call to Antle from Holton's mother prompted Relph and other detectives to go to the family's home in Mulvane.
When they arrived, Relph said, Holton's mother produced some jewelry. Relph recognized it. He'd seen it on Jackson in a photograph.

http://www.kansas.com/2010/04/15/126...ents_Container

It's a shame, the Detectives didn't record Sam's Mom, Rebecca Flagler, telling them they could enter the home and interview her dumb-ass son, as well as collect the stolen goods. Now, he'll cut a deal and be out to do this to someone else!

[Hellsbells]

18-year-old convicted of double murder in plea deal

WICHITA -- A Sedgwick County District judge this afternoon pronounced Sam Holton guilty of two murders around Thanksgiving 2009.

Holton, 18, pleaded no contest to second-degree murder in the killing of Adrian Jackson and Jessie Foust. Holton also pleaded no contest to a charge of aggravated robbery.

A no-contest plea does not admit guilt but allows defendants to take advantage of a plea agreement at sentencing. But such pleas are treated the same as guilty pleas.

Judge David Kaufman set sentencing for Jan. 14.

Under the plea agreement, prosecutors will ask for all three sentences to run concurrently, meaning Holton will likely face about 13 years in prison.

http://www.kansas.com/2010/12/08/162...in-double.html

[Dakota Valkyrie]

Sam Holton got more prison time than he bargained for Friday afternoon.

Holton, 19, will spend nearly as long in prison as he's already lived in his young life, after a judge declined to follow a plea agreement in a double murder and robbery.

Sedgwick County District Judge David Kaufman sentenced Holton to more than 18 years in prison,

It was 4 1/2 years more than contemplated in a plea bargain. But Kaufman said he was moved by the statements from the parents of Jessie Foust and Adrian Jackson. Foust and Jackson were shot to death on Thanksgiving eve 2009.

When Holton pleaded no contest to two counts of second-degree murder and aggravated robbery last month, prosecutors agreed to a sentence just shy of 13 years.

But judges aren't required to follow plea agreements.

The plea bargain, described by prosecutor Marc Bennett, asked Kaufman to run all three counts concurrently for a total 155 months.

Kaufman, however, handed Holton a sentence of 224 months.
[...]

Holton also will serve three years under the supervision of a parole officer after his release, the judge ordered.

"It's better than 13 years, absolutely," said Graham Foust, Jessie's father.
[...]

Holton told police he and another teen went the house to "hang out" and ended up shooting the couple to death.
[...]

Sal Intagliata, Holton's lawyer, voiced his condolences to both families in court and said his client had taken responsibility for the crimes.

Holton remained silent.

http://www.kansas.com/2011/01/15/167...nksgiving.html

I wonder what @tretton has to say about his "research" now. "Holton told police he and another teen went the house to "hang out" and ended up shooting the couple to death" and "his client had taken responsibility for the crimes" make some pretty good evidence that what tretton was hearing from Holton's family was nothing more than self-serving drivel and the media was much closer to the truth.

[carolinablue]

"Holton told police he and another teen went the house to "hang out"

So they went there to hang out...packing heat? Does their idea of hanging out require a gun for protection? I learned very early the following rules, not suggestions...rules.

1. You don't own a gun unless you are willing to use it
2. You don't pick up a gun unless you are going to fire it
3. If you fire a gun, you aim to kill.

[walkingeagle]

1. You don't own a gun unless you are willing to use it
2. You don't pick up a gun unless you are going to fire it
3. If you fire a gun, you aim to kill.

That's the best rules I have seen in a while! I get real tired of these internet idiots that encourage people to buy guns who normally might be against it. They never realize that shooting a gun at an inanimate object is not the same as shooting a person.

[Abroad]

Any news on Cox yet?

[MadeaBecBec]

Any news on Cox yet?

The prosecutors dropped murder charges against Trevor Cox and charged a 16 year old, Josh Duque, as an adult, with murder.
This was posted April, 2010;

Both are going to trial on first-degree murder and robbery charges after a judge ruled Thursday that Duque, 16, should face the charges as an adult.

A third man, meanwhile, saw murder charges dropped against him, pleaded guilty to a lesser charge and was released from jail.
Holton, 18, told police that he and Trevor Cox shot Adrian Jackson and Jessie Foust to death at their home, a detective testified Wednesday.

But Duque told the same detectives that he — not Cox — accompanied Holton to 601 N. Chautauqua the night before Thanksgiving, police testified Thursday.

Prosecutors dismissed murder charges against Cox on Wednesday after he pleaded no contest to aiding a felon and misdemeanor possession of stolen property.

"The credible evidence pointed to the fact my client wasn't present at the shooting," said Lee McMaster, Cox's lawyer.

Police found a 9mm handgun they think killed Jackson and Foust in a Superman backpack inside Cox's bedroom closet at his grandmother's house.

Cox, now 18, is set for sentencing May 27 before Judge James Burgess in juvenile court.

http://www.kansas.com/2010/04/16/127...-as-adult.html

Trial for Josh Duque hasn't been set yet!

[tretton]

It's not that I'm trying to criminalize the victims, I was making a fair point that they weren't as innocent as the media portrays. Now, the fact that they were killed in a senseless crime? This is a fate nobody should face, especially when there are children involved.

@MadeaBecBec

Sam's Mom, Rebecca Flagler never gave permission for them to enter the home, but did call Antle to get more information as to why her son was pulled in for questioning on a murder the night before. Just because the judge called the detectives out on their screw-up doesn't mean you should put her on a pedistal and throw rocks when she has told the truth since the beginning.

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@Dakota Valkyrie

"Holton told police he and another teen went the house to "hang out" and ended up shooting the couple to death"

This is a rather ugly quote, isn't it? What was meant to be a summary of the crime is now taken as an direct statement. Your 'evidence' is merely narrative from Ron Sylvester, not Sam Holton, or his attorney.

What this tells me is that a majority of people who read what they see in the media are quick to paint such an ugly picture of the person accused. Sam Holton did not own a single firearm, he did not have any intention to kill anybody. As @MadeaBecBec had quoted, Cox THREW the gun to Sam, meaning that Sam was unarmed at the time.

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The fact of the matter, what it all comes down to is that your life can change with just one stupid choice. Sam chose to hang out with gang members, Sam got caught up in stupid shit and look where it's got him. He's facing 18 years for a crime he did not intentionally commit.

The fact of the matter is that this could be anybody. This could be you, this could be someone you know--this could be someone you love. Sam was someone who had a future, a family who loved him dearly and still does, he had friends and was going to join the Air Force. My point is that he was somebody. He wasn't some gangbanger who went around raping and killing people for a blackberry. Here you all are judging someone without looking at both sides of the coin. It was a senseless crime that should have never happened.

You can bitch and moan about how much of a 'tard' I am, or make it a point to describe how Sam Holton should suffer for what he did but I've said my peace. If anything I hope one of you can understand this side, as well as the side of the victims and start questioning why the other two involved aren't getting as much media attention as Sam has.

[MC30]

It's not that I'm trying to criminalize the victims, I was making a fair point that they weren't as innocent as the media portrays. Now, the fact that they were killed in a senseless crime? This is a fate nobody should face, especially when there are children involved.

@MadeaBecBec

Sam's Mom, Rebecca Flagler never gave permission for them to enter the home, but did call Antle to get more information as to why her son was pulled in for questioning on a murder the night before. Just because the judge called the detectives out on their screw-up doesn't mean you should put her on a pedistal and throw rocks when she has told the truth since the beginning.

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@Dakota Valkyrie

"Holton told police he and another teen went the house to "hang out" and ended up shooting the couple to death"

This is a rather ugly quote, isn't it? What was meant to be a summary of the crime is now taken as an direct statement. Your 'evidence' is merely narrative from Ron Sylvester, not Sam Holton, or his attorney.

What this tells me is that a majority of people who read what they see in the media are quick to paint such an ugly picture of the person accused. Sam Holton did not own a single firearm, he did not have any intention to kill anybody. As @MadeaBecBec had quoted, Cox THREW the gun to Sam, meaning that Sam was unarmed at the time.

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The fact of the matter, what it all comes down to is that your life can change with just one stupid choice. Sam chose to hang out with gang members, Sam got caught up in stupid shit and look where it's got him. He's facing 18 years for a crime he did not intentionally commit. The fact of the matter is that this could be anybody. This could be you, this could be someone you know--this could be someone you love. Sam was someone who had a future, a family who loved him dearly and still does, he had friends and was going to join the Air Force. My point is that he was somebody. He wasn't some gangbanger who went around raping and killing people for a blackberry. Here you all are judging someone without looking at both sides of the coin. It was a senseless crime that should have never happened. You can bitch and moan about how much of a 'tard' I am, or make it a point to describe how Sam Holton should suffer for what he did but I've said my peace. If anything I hope one of you can understand this side, as well as the side of the victims and start questioning why the other two involved aren't getting as much media attention as Sam has.

ok, i won't call you a 'tard', BUT, i will call Sam one. then we can all be even stevens ok?

[MadeaBecBec]

@tretton
If Holton "accidentally" killed two young parents, that he "hung out" with on occasion, then why did he steal from them? He took jewelry and cell phones! Yep, it was all just a misunderstanding, Holton gets scared and shoots them! Yeah, I believe that....
You go ahead and tell yourself, whatever you must, to get through it and we'll keep posting whatever the media and the Justice System allows us to know!
Sam Holton has a future, still, as Big Bubbas best buddy!

[MinorAbrasions]

This is why you don't bring a Blackberry to a gun fight.

[bwert]

jessie was my friend and i went to hs with her, she was priceless, she was priceless, you could be a stranger off the street and she would welcome you with open arms

[LadyCygnet]

jessie was my friend and i went to hs with her, she was priceless, she was priceless, you could be a stranger off the street and she would welcome you with open arms

I'm sorry for your loss, bwert. Do you happen to know how her children are doing now?