Motorist Indicted in Officer’s Death

Dec. 10, 2021 – A Memphis man has been indicted on aggravated vehicular homicide, reckless driving, and drunken driving stemming from a crash in March that killed a Memphis police officer who had just gotten off duty, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

     The grand jury indicted Robert Earl Jackson, 54, who is being held on $100,000 bond. The two-vehicle crash occurred around 10 p.m. on March 8, 2021.

     Officer Nicholas Blow, 31, was leaving his shift at the Raines Station Precinct in Whitehaven when his car was struck broadside by Jackson whose pickup truck was eastbound on Raines Road.

      Blow was hospitalized in critical condition and died from his injuries about five hours later. He joined the Memphis Police Department in 2018 and had served more than six years in the Army, including two deployments to Iraq.

     Jackson, whose BAC measured .201, has a prior DUI conviction from Mississippi.

     The case is being handled by Asst. Dist. Atty. Kenya Smith of the District Attorney’s DUI Unit which works with law enforcement to reduce alcohol-related injuries and fatalities in Shelby County.