ALABASTER, AL (WBRC) -
When Mississippi's governor pardoned hundreds of convicted felons in his last hours in office, it sent shock waves through that state.
Gov. Haley Barbour set free four convicted killers. Now we've discovered one of those murderers is living in our area.
David Gatlin just recently purchased a new car with an Alabama tag and the address listed for the tag took us to a home in Alabaster. When we knocked on the door, Earnest Jacks answered and told us Gatlin was living there.
Jacks didn't add much else, other than he believed in redemption. His neighbors on the other hand aren't happy a convicted murderer has moved in on the block. Bonita Nabors lives across street. "I'm pretty petrified. It's kind of scary," said Nabors.
Sidney Frazier is also in close proximity. He lives right next door. "It's crazy. I don't want him in the neighborhood, a convicted murderer. I've got children. Heck no, I want him gone. He has no right to bring somebody like that in our neighborhood," said Frazier.
To understand why this neighborhood is so upset you have to go back to the summer of 1993 to Mississippi. David Gatlin was only 22 years old when he walked into the trailer of his estranged wife, Tammy, and shot her in the head while their newborn child was lying on her chest. He then turned his gun on Randy Walker, a long time family friend, shooting him too. Walker survived, Tammy did not.
Gatlin was given a life sentence, but just last month before leaving office, Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour decided to pardon Gatlin and three other murderers, a decision Tammy's family will never understand.
Tammy's mother said, "There's one person who is not here today that was affected by all of this. He was left lying on the floor in his mother's blood that day. And even though he didn't know her, he's had to live his whole never know what a great mother she could have been."
Life in prison to new life in Alabaster; living with an interesting man to say the least. When we first interviewed Earnest Jack's he was a man of very few words, but that soon changed when he didn't like us talking to his neighbors- or getting video of his home. Jack's walked out to the street where we were and said, "You're out telling my neighbors, exposing giving them something to worry about which they don't have anything to worry about."
From there Jack's talked for close to twenty minutes about what he's here on earth for: "In essence I'm the anti-Christ."
From there he told us his plans to solve the world's problems. "I will solve social security. How I will do that is I'll bomb Florida and Arizona where there are 1000's of them and then we won't have to pay their social security checks." Something he says God told him to do.
Jack's also shared his plans to solve illegal immigration, and lowering the population. "That's what I'm up against saving the world," said Jacks.
Many neighbors said they won't be able to sleep tonight knowing Gatlin has come to town. "I hope he's recovered or whatever they do to them in prison. It's scary," said Nabor.
"I'm going to be watching and I'll tell him right now he doesn't want someone like me having to watch him," said Frazier.
Alabaster Police say they have not been informed that a David Gatlin moved to town. They are looking in it.
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