Ernest Jenkins pleaded to one count of aggravated manslaughter of a child during a hearing Jan. 18 before Circuit Judge Caroline Shepherd. Prosecutors dropped a second charge of child abuse.

Kevin Jackson, 43, has maintained his innocence since he was convicted in the 2001 fatal shooting of 54-year-old Ernest Jenkins at a Southwest Side gas station, but his yearslong fight to overturn ...

Jackson, 43, is serving a 45-year sentence for the 2001 slaying of 54-year-old Ernest Jenkins and shooting of a second man at a Southwest Side gas station.

Jackson has always insisted he had nothing to do with the May 2001 early-morning murder of a man named Ernest Jenkins at a Citgo gas station on the corner of Damen Avenue and Garfield Boulevard on ...

Now 42, Jackson, who was 19 at the time, was accused of gunning down Ernest Jenkins at a Citgo gas station near the Back of the Yards and West Englewood neighborhoods.

Jackson has always insisted he had nothing to do with the May 2001 early-morning murder of a man named Ernest Jenkins at a Citgo gas station on the corner of Damen Avenue and Garfield Boulevard on ...

Ernest Richard Jenkins, age 75, of Eastlake, passed away Saturday, August 2, 2014 at Lake West Medical Center in Willoughby. He was born March 14, 1939, in Pricedale, Pa., he was a longtime Eastlak… ...

Jackson has always insisted he had nothing to do with the May 2001 early-morning murder of a man named Ernest Jenkins at a Citgo gas station on the corner of Damen Avenue and Garfield Boulevard on ...