Bail at $1 million in shooting case
Published 10:56 pm Wednesday, September 5, 2007
A judge kept bail at $1 million Wednesday for an 18-year-old Everett man accused of first-degree murder in the Aug. 20 shooting death of a former Mariner High School soccer star.
An Oct. 26 trial date was set for Dustin Maurice Jackson, although it’s likely the trial will be delayed.
Jackson is accused of slipping into a Stanwood residence through an unlocked sliding door early in the morning and firing one shot into Nicholas DeSimone’s head as he slept on the floor next to his girlfriend.
An autopsy determined that DeSimone, 19, was shot once behind his left ear, court documents said.
Numerous family members and friends of DeSimone’s attended the brief Snohomish County Superior Court hearing, some of them wearing T-shirts honoring DeSimone.
Jackson previously dated the 16-year-old girl. Court documents say Jackson threatened DeSimone and pledged to win back the girl’s affections.
The girl told police she thought she was dreaming of fireworks and smoke during the early morning hours of the shooting. When she tried to wake up DeSimone, she saw blood on his pillow.
A neighbor spotted a red car similar to Jackson’s, and got a partial license number, which led Snohomish County sheriff’s detectives to get a search warrant for the vehicle, documents said.
Court records don’t say what investigators learned from the search.
Reporter Jim Haley: 425-339-3447 or jhaley@heraldnet.com.
