Five suspects in the brutal murder of 20-year-old Alabama mother Mahogany Jackson appeared at a bond hearing on Monday, March 4.
Teja Lewis, 25, Si’nya McCall, 23, Blair Green, 25, Giovonnie Clapp, 23, and Airana Robinson, 23, were denied bond.
All five are charged with felony murder and kidnapping.
Suspects Francis Harris, 25, Brandon Pope, 24, and Jeremiah McDowell, 18, did not appear in court.
Police say Jackson went to Pope’s house on Feb. 25 to hang out with friends. A video begins with Lewis and McCall slapping and punching Jackson in a bedroom.
Jackson was stripped, handcuffed, pistol-whipped and forced to perform oral sex on a male suspect at gunpoint.
Early Monday, Feb. 26, Jackson sent a text message to a family member that read: “I’ve been kidnapped. Send help. Don’t call.”
When police arrived at the apartment complex, Jackson was gone. Her captors threw her in a car trunk and transported her to an apartment. She was tortured for 12 hours then fatally shot.
Her body was found under a mattress in the 1700 block of Laurel Avenue shortly after 2 a.m. on Monday.
Jackson’s murder drew parallels to the killing of Shanquella Robinson in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico on Oct. 29, 2022.
The 25-year-old businesswoman from North Carolina was beaten to death by her friends at a resort.
Robinson’s friends were never charged with her murder.
