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'''Jake Gardner''' (d. 2020) was a Nebraska small business owner and [[Marine Corps]] [[veteran]] who committed [[suicide]] after being charged with [[manslaughter]], stemming from an incident in which he fired a weapon on a violent [[criminal]] [[riot]]er who attacked him on camera.<ref>https://twitter.com/Only1Kross/status/1267010037890846720</ref>
Gardner shot and killed [[Black Lives Matter]] rioter, James Scurlock, who attacked his father outside of Gardner’s bar in [[Omaha]], [[Nebraska]] during the [[2020 Marxist insurrection]]. After firing two warning shots as the mob attacked and shoved him to the ground, curlock was shot.
Eyewitness accounts of Gardner’s interaction with Scurlock testified that it was self-defense. [[Prosecutor]]s who investigated the incident originally declined to charge Gardner, recognizing that the case appeared to be an example of textbook self defense. After [[leftist]] and Black Lives Matter [[activist]]s placed “intense pressure” upon Douglas County Attorney Donald Kleine, he relented to an external review of the incident overseen by a federal prosecutor. A federal judge issued a warrant for Gardner’s arrest on charges of manslaughter, attempted assault, and terroristic threats.
Gardner had been supposedly planning to turn himself into Omaha Police on Monday, but a friend of Gardner reportedly confirmed to the Gateway Pundit that the 38-year old man committed suicide over the weekend.
Gardner’s body was found in [[Portland, Oregon]] with his attorney describing his death as a suicide. His lawyer, Stu Dornan, emphasized that Gardner’s conduct when targeted during the July BLM riot was self-defense, and that his actions are not to be taken as an admission of guilt in any capacity.
Gardner was a decorated [[Iraq War]] veteran who had suffered two traumatic brain injuries as a result of his military service.
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