Father calls killer ‘parasite’ after guilty plea in slaying of Macon girl
A Macon man pleaded guilty to murder Monday in the 2013 fatal shooting of 16-year-old Alyssa Jackson.
Dontavius “Man Man” Mintz, 18, entered his plea as part of an agreement with prosecutors that he will “truthfully” testify in a pending case in exchange for a recommended sentence of life in prison with the possibility of parole.
He pleaded guilty, standing before a judge in Bibb County Superior Court on Monday afternoon, but was not sentenced.
“He kept saying he was innocent,” said Jackson’s 19-year-old sister, Kiani. “I just don’t want him to get out no time soon, because you can’t bring my sister back.”
Prosecutor John Regan said two witnesses have identified Mintz, an alleged member of the Bloomfield Crips street gang, as one of two people who fired shots on Nov. 21, 2013, when Alyssa Jackson was shot.
He was driving the car, Regan said.
Regan asked the judge to file the plea agreement under seal, exempting it from public release.
“I cannot understand how it is that ... he would be given the opportunity in 30 years to be free from a potential life sentence. I think it’s ridiculous,” Sebastian Jackson, Alyssa’s father, said Monday evening when he was told of Mintz’s guilty plea.
“We have certain parasites in this society that have proven to be damaging. They have proven that they are beyond rehabilitation. I don’t think 30 years is a long enough time for him to reflect on what he has done.”
His daughter was shot and killed while talking to Damion Bernard “Little Petey” Clayton on Cedar Avenue, just west of Pio Nono Avenue and south of Mercer University Drive. Clayton, said to have been a member of the rival 10-12 gang, was the alleged intended target.
Police have said that in the same shooting, a 13-year-old boy was grazed on the head by a bullet while he was sitting in a vehicle nearby on Moseley Avenue. He survived.
Clayton was killed months later, Feb. 22, 2014, at the Macon Little League ballpark on Anthony Road, about a month after Mintz’s Jan. 17, 2014, arrest.
Mintz was 16 when he was arrested.
Three days before Alyssa Jackson was killed, Mintz and another man allegedly forced their way into the Howard Oaks Drive home of a north Macon dentist, took items from the home and then took him to a Zebulon Road ATM at gunpoint.
In his confession, 19-year-old Brandon Deneal Howard told authorities Mintz also participated in the heist. Charges stemming from the robbery still are pending.
After forcing the dentist to withdraw money, Howard and Mintz allegedly drove to Pio Nono Avenue and walked the dentist into a wooded area with a towel covering his head, releasing him.
Howard pleaded guilty to armed robbery last September and was sentenced to 20 years in prison as part of a plea deal.
Writer Joe Kovac Jr. contributed to this report, which contains information from Telegraph archives. To contact writer Amy Leigh Womack, call 744-4398.
This story was originally published June 29, 2015 at 5:03 PM with the headline "Father calls killer ‘parasite’ after guilty plea in slaying of Macon girl ."