Jackson 5 Drummer Slain

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http://entertainment.tv.yahoo.com/entnews/eo/20060303/114143448000.html

Johnny Jackson, the man who kept the beat for the Jackson 5, and cousin to Michael, Janet, Tito et al., was found stabbed to death in his Gary, Indiana, home Wednesday.

According to local police, officers were called to Johnny Jackson's house at approximately 11:30 p.m. after a neighbor phoned in a noise complaint. The caller, who lived above Jackson, reported that the musician and an unidentified woman were having a heated exchange on the first floor of the building.

The police entered Jackson's home and found the 54-year-old unconscious with a stab wound to his chest. Less than an hour later, the Lake County coroner's office pronounced him dead.

Jackson joined his famous cousins' singing troupe in the late 1960s, replacing the group's original drummer, Milford Hite. While Motown sessions musicians played on most of the group's greatest cuts, including "I Want You Back," "ABC," "I'll Be There" and "Never Can Say Goodbye," Johnny Jackson was the band's concert drummer. After the group disbanded, he joined an outfit called the White Doves.

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1. Morning kick.

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2. ??

strange

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3. One more time.

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[Deja Q]

4. Slain? Why do journalists always use that word? He's not a dragon!

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6. Everyone knows Tito was the dragon in the Jackson 5!

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7. Yeah, I know, It's up there with the use of the word "tragedy."

Most murders and "dads backing up over their kids in a minivan" don't involve hubris against the gods and a nice, relieving catharsis at the end.

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5. Damn

that's sad