deadmonton 2006 - jacey sydney pinnock
Jacey Sydney Pinnock, 27, was shot to death October 29th, 2006.
Dwayne Anthony Nelson, 22, was charged with three counts of second-degree murder, two counts of aggravated assault and one count of assault causing bodily harm.
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Jacey Sydney Pinnock was one of three men shot as part of the Red Light Lounge Triple Murder. For the latest developments into the investigation of his death, please visit the Red Light page.
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Before he headed out for a night of clubbing, Jacey Sydney Pinnock gave his mom a hug and displayed a few of his dance moves.
"He was a happy person," Veronica Pinnock, Jacey's mother, told the Edmonton Sun.
"Even before he went out [Saturday] night, he hugged me and showed me how he was going to dance."
When the phone calls came in hours later telling Veronica her son was dead, she found it hard to believe.
It was only when official word from police confirmed the calls from friends did the truth set in.
"We're positive that it's him. He's not here. He didn't come home."
Veronica said her son was well-known and well-liked in the Caribbean community.
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"You'll see at the end of the funeral how many people know him," she said.
Speaking to Global Edmonton, Veronica Pinnock shared her grief.
"He didn't deserve it. And I don't believe it's gang related. He was at the wrong place at the wrong time."
"I didn't think nobody would go after him because the type of person that he is. People want to love him more than kill him."
"I said to my other son, 'Did he feel pain?' He said, 'No.' And that's all what comfort me."
Jacey Pinnock was father of a ten-month-old boy, LaDainian.
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According his mother, the arrival of the child seemed to turn the once-troubled man around.
"He just changed for the best."
"He's want to have something his baby can live for."
"Now he's gone," lamented his mother.
“He loved that kid so much,” said Pinnock’s dad, Sydney. “Every time I see that baby I cry.”
Global spoke with Laurel Coombs, a close friend of Jacey's.
The woman said her friend was making positive changes in his life.
"He was doing a huge 360 and just trying to be a good dad."
The Edmonton Journal reported Jacey had recently enrolled in an online real estate course.
The theme of "wrong place wrong time" dogged Jacey Pinnock and his friends in recent days.
Pinnock was a friend of Varnado Stobbs who was murdered October 6th, 2006 at the Gingur Sky Lounge.
Sydney said his son wasn’t involved in any gangs, and when Stobbs was shot Jacey stopped going to nightclubs.
Pinnock only went to the Red Light Lounge because he knew some of the management there and felt safe.
When Global reporter Susan Tymofichuk was covering the story of Stobbs' murder, she spoke with Pinnock who was present at the shooting.
Jacey told her that Stobbs was "at the wrong place at the wrong time."
Now covering the story of Pinnock's murder, friends of Jacey told her the same thing about him.
Veronica Pinnock insisted the two killings had nothing to do with each other, a feeling shared by police.
A spokesman for the department said it was "still pretty early" to draw any conclusions.
"At this time it would be speculation," he said.
Pinnock's father said police asked Red Light witnesses if they thought Jacey would have retaliated for the Stobbs shooting and if they thought someone had decided to "take care" of him before that could happen.
Jacey Pinnock was born in Toronto and moved with his family to Edmonton in 1980.
In November 2002 he was sentenced to 90 days in jail for possession of a prohibited or restricted weapon, a knife. Pinnock was among eight men arrested in connection with a shooting at the Steele Heights community hall at 5825 140th Avenue on August 5th, 2002.
Police had arrived at the hall after a man was shot in the head. The man survived.
Pinnock was originally charged with aggravated assault and possession of a prohibited firearm but pleaded guilty only to the lesser offence of possession of a prohibited or restricted weapon.
In April 2005 Pinnock was charged with one count of possessing drugs for the purpose of trafficking (reportedly 2 kilograms of cocaine) and five weapons-related charges (for a hangun found in his Honda Accord).
He was scheduled to appear in court in December 2006.
Appearing on CTV Edmonton, Veronica Pinnock expressed her own trouble with the law.
The mother stated she has problems with a city policy that keeps emergency personnel away from crime scenes until they have been cleared by police.
She said she was told Jacey was still breathing when police first arrived.
"Somebody gets shot maybe even the breathing would help [but] it's not allowed," she said masking her mouth in demonstration.
"So the justice system is messed right there."
Friends of Varnado Stobbs drove him to the hospital when the same policy kept emergency crews at bay at the Gingur Sky Lounge shooting.
Veronica told CTV Edmonton her son was a great cook who helped her out in her restaurant, Ms. V's Caribbean and Canadian Cuisine, on the city's north side.
She remembered her son as "kind, loving. Always going out to help people."
"He was a good person."