The mother of a University of Southern Mississippi football player who was fatally shot says her son had no enemies
The mother of University of Southern Mississippi football player Marcus Daniels Jr., who was killed this week, said he had no enemies.
The mother of a University of Southern Mississippi football player who was found fatally shot in his car this week said he would call her every day after practice to check in and that he had no known enemies.
Adrian Jackson said in an interview Thursday that she didn't know why anyone would kill her 21-year-old son, Marcus Daniels Jr., a natural athlete who was known to friends and family as MJ, a reference to basketball great Michael Jordan.
Although police in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, said they have not identified a suspect in the Tuesday night killing, Jackson said detectives told her they didn't find anything suspicious in his cellphone.
“The main thing I wanna know is why my son?" Jackson said. "They took a brother and a best friend.”
Daniels, a criminology major and four-star recruit who played defensive back for the Golden Eagles, was found unresponsive in his 2023 Dodge Challenger parked at the Ivy Row apartment complex, where he lived.
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