10/1/2021- 6:32 p.m.
Ohio – A 28-year-old Concord Township man on trial for the killing of William Larondez Jackson Jr., 39, and Heavenly Goddess Murphy-Jackson, 38, died by suicide Friday afternoon in the parking lot of the Lake County Common Pleas Courthouse, authorities say.
Sargi, who posted 10 percent of his $10 million bond last year, was coming back to court from his home after being notified that the jury reached a verdict in his case, according to a news release from the Lake County Sheriff’s Office.
Sargi’s trial had started last month, court records say.
The jury never delivered the verdict.Sargi never walked into the courthouse. Instead, he shot himself, the release says.
The Lake County Sheriff’s Office’s detective bureau and the Lake County Coroner’s Office is investigating the incident.No one else was injured during this incident.
Jackson Jr and Murphy-Jackson were found dead Jan. 4, 2020, in the front seats of a 2019 GMC Yukon parked on Andrea Drive in Concord Township.
Sheriff’s deputies arrested Sargi about a mile away, following a brief SWAT standoff at his home on Oakridge Drive, authorities said.
