Alabama mother Mahogany Jackson was found shot in the back of the head on Feb. 26 by the side of a road in a remote area in Birmingham, Alabama, hours after she texted her mother saying that she had been kidnapped and asking for help, according to the Birmingham Police Department .
"This is undoubtedly one of the most heinous acts I've seen in my career. It's absolutely disgusting," Thurmond added.Police announced on Feb. 28 that seven suspects were arrested and charged in connection to the kidnapping, rape, assault and murder of Jackson, a native of Jasper, Alabama, while an eighth suspect was arrested on March 1.
Lewis and Clapp also were charged with second-degree assault, while the eighth suspect, Ariana Lashay Robinson, 23, was charged with felony murder - kidnapping, according to police. In the message, Jackson told her mother that she was being held hostage and shared the name of an individual who lives in the apartment where she was allegedly being held, as well as an address and asked her mother not to call her back, but urged her to reach out to the police, Fitzgerald said, adding that it was the last time anyone heard from Jackson.
Fitzgerald said that Jackson's body was found "in a kind of isolated area near a residential neighborhood" about two and half miles away from the apartment that Jackson had indicated she was being held at in the text message to her mother.