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Jarron Deajon Pridgeon is an American man from Oklahoma, United States. Here are 13 more things about him:
- In 2017, he was arrested for larceny of an automobile. He was booked on August 14, 2017 and his district court arraignment was on August 28, 2017. The case was dismissed on September 26, 2019.
- In February 2019, he was charged with assault and battery with a dangerous weapon, threatening to perform acts of violence and misdemeanor malicious injury to private property.
- In June 2019, he was charged with obstruction, resisting an officer and possession of a controlled dangerous substance.
- On December 20, 2019, he posted a Facebook video of himself singing.
- On March 30, 2020, he posted a YouTube video of children eating spicy snacks. The video was taken by a woman speaking behind the camera.
- On April 27, 2020, he took to Facebook to announce that he got engaged but did not reveal who his fiancée was.
- In January 2021, he and his brother Ja’ Varian Keyshawn Lee, then 24, moved to a house in Muskogee, Oklahoma along with several children.
- On February 2, 2021, he fatally shot Lee and five children namely Que’dynce Anderson, 9, Neveah Pridgeon, 6, Harmony Anderson, 5, Jaidus Pridgeon, 3, and Jalaiya Pridgeon, 1, in their house in Muskogee. He also shot the children’s mother Brittany Anderson, 27, and another child, who both survived. Three more children who were in the house at the time were not injured. He was arrested, booked into the Muskogee County Jail in Muskogee and charged of first-degree murder and assault and battery with a dangerous weapon. He is the biological father of some of the victims. Two of the victims were students at Creek Elementary School in Muskogee.
- In September 2021, he pleaded not guilty to six counts of first-degree murder.
- In August 2022, Muskogee County District Court Judge Timothy King scheduled his trial for November 10, 2023 in Muskogee.
- On March 21, 2023, he turned 28.
- On April 27, 2023, his attorney Gretchen Mosley filed a motion requesting to change his plea to not guilty by reason of insanity.
- In May 2023, it was confirmed that his trial was delayed to May 2024.
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