NEW ORLEANS —

Cedrick Marshall has been sentenced to 10 years in prison after pleading guilty to first degree vehicular negligent injury. This was in connection to a 2024 crash that left a 15-year-old Edna Karr student hurt.

Jamal Jackson is still in critical condition after an SUV crashed into his bedroom at his residence on the corner of Cerise Avenue and Chef Menteur. Advertisement

The judge said if Jackson passes away he could be charged with vehicular homicide could face up to 30 years.

Through many tears in the weeks after the crash, Cierra Patterson, the mother of Jamal Jackson, 15, described the horrific scene that left her son in the Intensive Care Unit.

"All she heard was loud glass noise, and when she called me on the phone because I wasn't there, she just said that Jamal

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