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Grand jury declines to indict father in Kentucky State University shooting [Jacob Lee Bard]
Daily Express via MSN ^ | 12/24/2025 | Yelena Mandenberg

Posted on 12/24/2025 9:24:00 PM PST by logi_cal869

A grand jury has chosen not to indict the father of two Kentucky State University students who faced murder charges following an on-campus shooting that left one student dead and another critically wounded.

Following Tuesday's hearing, defense lawyer Scott Danks announced via social media that grand jurors voted against indicting his client, Jacob Lee Bard, for the Dec. 9 shooting, and he has been released from custody. Bard's legal team previously told media outlets that 20 to 30 individuals had assembled to attack his son and family, and that he acted justifiably in shooting two people who were assaulting his son.

Following the grand jury's determination, Kentucky State officials stated they "will cooperate with law enforcement and investigators as appropriate" and remain committed to student safety and welfare.

According to Bard's lawyers, the family was relocating their younger son from campus, accompanied by two armed campus police officers, after withdrawing both sons from the university due to "multiple armed, violent" incidents targeting them and other students in the days before Dec. 9, some documented on security footage.

When the family and an officer arrived at the dormitory entrance on move-out day, the masked and hooded group rushed forward and launched a violent assault on the family and others, including slamming the son's head against the pavement, the attorneys stated. In October, the younger son reported a dorm room burglary to campus police and subsequently received violent threats, according to the attorneys.

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While investigators have labeled the shooting as isolated, they have yet to publicly disclose details of the circumstances or a potential motive. The incident resulted in the death of 19-year-old De'Jon Fox from Indianapolis.

(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...


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KEYWORDS: hooded; shooting

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Very strange situation:

[Black] Father of two boys at KSU who are being preyed upon and harassed by unknown individuals travels out of state to help them move out, is attacked, produces a handgun (which belongs to his wife, transported interstate), opens fire, kills a black student, is both freed and the MSM appears to be ignoring the story on multiple levels.

Very strange all around. Many questions.

More details here:

https://lawandcrime.com/crime/you-will-die-mob-of-30-people-attacked-college-student-for-reporting-a-burglary-leading-his-father-to-shoot-one-of-them-dead/

1 posted on 12/24/2025 9:24:00 PM PST by logi_cal869
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2 posted on 12/24/2025 9:25:22 PM PST by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 "/!i!! &@$%&*(@ -')
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To: logi_cal869

KSU sounds like a third world s—thole.


3 posted on 12/24/2025 9:33:49 PM PST by Wayne07
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To: logi_cal869

“KSU President Koffi Akakpo”

I think I see the problem.

KSU sounds like a $hit show. A lot of the administration needs replacement.


4 posted on 12/24/2025 9:34:38 PM PST by TheDon (Remember the J6 political prisoners! Remember Ashli Babbitt!)
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To: TheDon

Perhaps the Grand Jury looked at the evidence and determined he acted with in the Law. I understand that it grinds your gears to have it happen but according to the Law , people are allowed to defend themselves. I can see this torquing you off no end. You thought George Zimmerman should have been hanged too. Didn’t you.


5 posted on 12/24/2025 10:18:17 PM PST by sport
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To: sport

You must have replied to the wrong post. It happens.


6 posted on 12/24/2025 10:30:15 PM PST by TheDon (Remember the J6 political prisoners! Remember Ashli Babbitt!)
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To: logi_cal869

Who are the hooded people who went after his sons?


7 posted on 12/24/2025 10:34:03 PM PST by goodolemr
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To: goodolemr

That’s one of my questions, too.

Given the circumstances and how it reads, you’d think the left would be all over this.


8 posted on 12/24/2025 10:52:49 PM PST by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 "/!i!! &@$%&*(@ -')
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To: logi_cal869

That sounds like a terrible school to send your child for an education. Makes you wonder why that college was chosen?
Maybe the two sons had a low grade point average, and this school was one of the few who accepted them.


9 posted on 12/24/2025 11:03:20 PM PST by lee martell
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Isn't it interesting how the deceased - ostensibly one of the attackers, De'Jon Fox - is now associated with gangland revenge talk from his mother:

The mother of the deceased student has openly called for the murder of Jacob’s son for revenge, requested the help of criminal gangs, including the Vice Lords criminal gang, and yet no criminal charges have been filed against her. Jacob and his family continue to receive credible death threats, and Jacob’s sons are now residing in a non-disclosed location for their safety.”
https://news-usa.today/jacob-bard-shooting-no-indictment-in-ksu-death/
10 posted on 12/24/2025 11:06:10 PM PST by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 "/!i!! &@$%&*(@ -')
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I believe it’s a gang thing and that’s why the enemedia is ignoring it.

See #10 https://freerepublic.com/focus/chat/4358930/posts?page=10#10


11 posted on 12/24/2025 11:10:07 PM PST by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 "/!i!! &@$%&*(@ -')
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So much for the prosecutorial discretion of the Commonwealths Attorney that brought the indictment.


12 posted on 12/25/2025 1:49:41 AM PST by Theophilus (covfefe)
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“ produces a handgun (which belongs to his wife, transported interstate),”

Totally legal.


13 posted on 12/25/2025 4:38:29 AM PST by DesertRhino (When men on the chessboard, get up and tell you where to go…)
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A mob of 20-30 masked thugs attacked a man helping his son move from a place that had become dangerous. He defends himself and isn’t charged. Why would that raise questions or seem strange that he wasn’t arrested?


14 posted on 12/25/2025 4:42:27 AM PST by DesertRhino (When men on the chessboard, get up and tell you where to go…)
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The only strange thing was that the university lets the school run like a prison cell block.
And the dad was arrested (very unjustly) until a grand jury refused to indict him.


15 posted on 12/25/2025 4:49:20 AM PST by DesertRhino (When men on the chessboard, get up and tell you where to go…)
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To: sport

When Zimmermann’s name is invoked, I think of Trayvon Martin and Pam Bondi, a public booster of Martin.


16 posted on 12/25/2025 4:52:02 AM PST by Theodore R. ( )
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AND a booster of a fraud witness at trial! She is owned by... someone.... ymmv


17 posted on 12/25/2025 5:26:38 AM PST by PalominoGuy ( )
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To: DesertRhino

I didn’t state that it was illegal.

“The only strange thing was that the university lets the school run like a prison cell block.”

But find this in enemedia posts.

Any other time this happens the left launches into a predictable anti-gun diatribe against the shooter, to state nothing of “hooded” attackers of a black family, let alone gangsta threats against them by the mother of the deceased.

Why not this time?

“The only strange thing...”

Alrighty, then. /s


18 posted on 12/25/2025 6:12:14 AM PST by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 "/!i!! &@$%&*(@ -')
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It’s shameful that he ever had to go before a grand jury. He should have been celebrated throughout the state. Kentucky Republicans need to make an issue out of this — if they’re still awake.


19 posted on 12/25/2025 6:33:39 AM PST by Socon-Econ (adi)
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That’s the other question: Why almost no one has come to his defense. Following his arrest, the man was given $1 million bail for a clear self-defense case. In Kentucky. WTH.

It’s not just the left’s omission from the media.

Very odd story, missing key details IMHO.

And I guess it never made rand paul’s radar, let alone Young’s or Banks’ (father’s senators). Curious. /s


20 posted on 12/25/2025 8:02:07 AM PST by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 "/!i!! &@$%&*(@ -')
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