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Jackson said that Hawthorne filed a police report on Spearman and gave detectives the video. Hawthorne told Jackson that Spearman ran to his neighbor’s house and told neighbors that Hawthorne had tried to rob him. Jackson said Spearman grabbed Hawthorne to try and prevent him from leaving and Hawthorne told Spearman he was going to tell his wife. Jackson said that’s when Hawthorne became angry, hit Spearman and told Spearman that he wasn’t gay. (The Rhino Times is omitting some graphic details that Jackson conveyed.) Spearman’s hand moved up Hawthorne’s leg according to this account and it became an overt sexual assault. Afterward, Spearman called him inside and said he wanted to pray over the young man’s financial situation.Īccording to Jackson’s account, Hawthorne told him that the two men began praying over the financial troubles, and, as part of that prayer process, Spearman began anointing the 20-year-old on his feet with oil and began rubbing it into his feet and kissing his feet as part of the prayer ritual.

The 20-year-old Hawthorne told Jackson that he had known Spearman since he was 15 years old and that he often did work in Spearman’s home and yard to earn extra money.Īccording to what the 20-year-old told Jackson, on July 13, Spearman had texted Hawthorne asking him to clean the gutters and stated he would pay the young man. “This is an ongoing investigation and no further information will be released at this time,” the press release stated. of a 71-year-old, deceased in his residence.

in Greensboro “in reference to a death investigation” in response to a 911 call at 5:08 p.m. The Guilford County Sheriff’s Department has released that on Tuesday, July 19, sheriff’s deputies responded to 4246 Farlow Dr. However, the name of the 20-year-old later surfaced in vague law enforcement reports and Jackson acknowledged that was the 20-year-old he had been speaking with. Jackson didn’t reveal Hawthorne’s name to the Rhino Times. Jackson contends Spearman took his own life because Hawthorne had begun contacting Spearman’s wife on Facebook and had begun revealing the assault elsewhere and also filed legal charges, and the phone video is now in the hands of law enforcement. Jackson spoke with the Rhino Times before the public release of some information, and the information Jackson provided that was not publicly known at the time concurs with the information later released as well as concurs with four 911 calls that were released two days ago. The Guilford County Sheriff’s Department and other law enforcement agencies have released very little regarding the case and haven’t released the cause of death. Jackson said, after that story ran, Hawthorne reached out to him to reveal his story – some of which he posted on his website.

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“I’m just a blogger shedding light on injustices,” Jackson told the Rhino Times this week.īefore the series of events that led to Spearman’s death, Jackson, who runs the NC Beat website and several social media sites, posted stories with documentation that purported to show financial and other misdealings of Spearman in his capacity as the former president of the North Carolina NAACP.

He also said he had faced unfair prosecution because, during his eight years running an internet news site, he had exposed the wrongdoing of powerful people in the eastern part of the state. Jackson, who has a criminal record including school bomb threats as a youth and who has served prison time for attempted extortion of an Onslow County attorney, said that, while he had a troubled youth and has made mistakes in his past, he is now merely interested in exposing wrongdoing among public officials. Spearman, the former head of the NC NAACP and a member of the Guilford County Board of Elections, was found dead at his home in what one 911 caller said was an extremely bloody scene.Īccording to the account that Jackson said Hawthorne provided him, Hawthorne, a straight black male, captured part of the sexual assault on his phone and threatened to make the video public – which, Jackson said, ultimately led to what appears to be Spearman’s suicide in the week following the alleged sexual assault. Anthony Spearman, contacted him, Jackson, and told him that Spearman had sexually assaulted him in Spearman’s home. Gerald Jackson, a New Bern man who operates social media sites for a living, told the Rhino Times that Jayden Hawthorne, a 20-year-old black male who often did odd jobs for the now deceased Rev.

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