Fugitive wanted for murder of Wisconsin mother of six captured after month-long manhunt

A Wisconsin man accused of murdering a woman trying to rescue his girlfriend from an abusive relationship was captured Sunday after more than a month on the run.

Terry “Scooter Man” Jackson, 42, surrendered Sunday in Chicago after “a brief standoff and negotiations” when members of the United States Marshals Service’s Fugitive Task Force spotted him through a window, according to the Racine Police Department.

Officials had tracked Jackson through Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana, Texas and Arizona before finding him in Chicago Sunday.

Terry L. Jackson Jr.

On Feb. 27, Jackson allegedly assaulted two women with a claw hammer, then returned on April 24, pulled 30-year-old Brittany Booker out of her home and into her car, according to police. She was found dead from a single gunshot wound to the head in her car.

Booker’s six children, the youngest just 2 years old, were home at the time.

Relatives told WISN at the time that Booker had been helping a friend get out of an abusive relationship with Jackson when he attacked the first time, then came back to kill her two months later.

“This was a particularly violent criminal,” United States Marshal for the Eastern District of Wisconsin Anna Ruzinski said in a statement Sunday. “Only through cooperation without partner agencies and the diligent work of our Fugitive Task Force, he is now off of the street.”

Three people — 24-year-old Diamond Hood, 30-year-old Alicia Sykes and 34-year-old Carmelita Walker — were previously arrested and charged with harboring/aiding a felon for allegedly hiding Jackson.