A 47-year-old Casper man pleaded guilty under a deal with prosecutors in Natrona County District Court, admitting to shooting a crossbow bolt through a kitchen window where his ex-girlfriend was staying last September.
Casey W. Jackson had been facing seven charges stemming from an incident Sept. 19-20, 2024, where a 32-year-old woman at a home in the 700 Block of Durbin Street called police to tell them that her ex-boyfriend, Jackson, had “fired an arrow through her friend’s kitchen window.”
In court Wednesday, Natrona County District Attorney Dan Itzen said he was willing to drop three charges in the case in return for guilty pleas on a charge of aggravated assault and battery, a felony; and reckless endangerment, stalking and property destruction, all misdemeanors.
Two reckless endangerment charges and a possession of a controlled substance charge would be dropped.
Itzen said he would limit his sentencing request to eight years in prison.
Jackson and his defense attorney Marty Scott told Natrona County District Court Judge Daniel Forgey that he agreed to the terms of the plea. The judge then read the charges to Jackson, who admitted his guilt.
Forgey asked Jackson how he caused damage to the window and a window well of the property on Durbin Street.
“An arrow, shot through the window,” Jackson said.
Jackson told the judge that there may have been one person in the house when he fired the arrow and others were on the porch.
His attorney helped him accomplish his confession about the reckless endangerment charge.
“I would acknowledge that shooting a weapon into the residence was reckless endangerment,” Scott said.
Text Messages
The judge also asked Jackson about his attempts to communicate with and stalk his ex-girlfriend.
Jackson told the judge that a protection order was not yet in place at the time of the incident, only on the night of his arrest.
“There was text messages that I sent,” he said. “I know I was asked to stop.”
The judge said he would use the arrest affidavit as evidence as well to accept Jackson’s guilty.
Scott asked the judge to modify his client’s $25,000 cash bond.
“Most of the conduct in this case was caused by his emotional state and by drugs and alcohol,” Scott said, asking the judge for a $15,000 cash or surety bond.
Itzen argued that Jackson has 10 prior felonies including burglaries, possession of a firearm by a felon and violation of a protection order among others.
“I find that the bond remains appropriate,” Forgey said, and ordered a pre-sentence investigation in the case.
During his initial appearance in Casper Circuit Court last September, Jackson told the judge that the incident is “nothing what it is made out to be. This is all alleged.”
Police who responded to the Durbin Street address shortly after midnight Sept. 20 found where a three-blade broadhead crossbow bolt had entered the home through a kitchen window with a shaft on the floor.
Part of the bolt was stuck in the kitchen wall that divided the kitchen and living room, the affidavit states.
A neighbor, in an apartment directly below the kitchen, later reported finding a bolt stuck above a window as well.
Jackson’s ex-girlfriend “advised she had been receiving threatening messages all day from Jackson,” the affidavit states.
She got a protection order just hours before the incident Sept. 19.
Prior to going to court, the woman said she received a voicemail from Jackson threatening her. While walking dogs about 10 p.m. that night, she said she saw Jackson in a black Ram truck leaving an alley behind the Durbin residence, the affidavit states.
The woman told police that she was advised by a friend that Jackson had texted the friend about killing the man at the Durbin Street residence and maybe her as well.
“I don’t worry about getting arrested, just served, right,” the affidavit states Jackson allegedly wrote. “She shouldn’t have done that, she is in deep, deep trouble, she might just want to leave town if she knows what’s good for her.
“I’m so mad I’m definitely gonna make it worthwhile, it will definitely be in the news.”
Dale Killingbeck can be reached at dale@cowboystatedaily.com.
