Community Protests for Jackson Gas Station to Be Shut Down

Councilman Kenneth Stokes was joined by many in the community for a protest on Sunday against the Texaco gas station on Medgar Evers Boulevard after the recent homicides and crime in the area.

He says he will be bringing up a vote of no confidence against the city’s legal department and director for not declaring the gas station a nuisance and shutting it down before now.

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The most recent homicide happened earlier this month when 23-year-old Jacobi Austin was shot and killed in front of the gas station.

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Stokes and residents feel like shutting down the business is the only way to handle the growing issue in the area.

“If you are providing a business that you see is detrimental to the community that you’re serving and that your business is causing people to lose their lives. Then you should have the integrity of a human being for yourself to say, we need to shut this down,” Joseph Holiday said.

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