The pack that tried to murder a child in his own house will not slink off. They’re threatening the single mother who stopped the slaughter—and her children. On Facebook, the knife boy’s mommy is organizing a pity parade: “Justice for Jasiyah.” On the streets they’re talking blood vengeance.
Justice. For the kid who showed up with a big-assed hunting knife.
Jasiyah, age 13, hit that Freeport street already wearing an ankle monitor from a prior juvenile arrest—state hardware for a child who should have been grounded, not hunting. He told the homeowner’s oldest boy he was going to get “gutted like a pig,” waving that blade like he was Conan the Barbarian’s son. Then he and his little wolf pack ran the homeowner’s kids down on electric scooters. The homeowner’s children did the sane thing they could do: They ran for home.
The animals followed. It was a Wednesday, August 5th, at 5pm. Hours earlier, around 3am, lil’ Jasiya is suspected of coming to the homeowner’s place and busting out one or more windows in her van.
Jasiyah and his trusty knife. Moments before he sprung a leak.
Jasiyah took point in hot pursuit and rammed his shoulder into the front door before it could close and lock. He forced the door open and entered steel first. He drove that knife at the homeowner’s 14-year-old son.
Mom warned him. He lunged anyway. She shot him. Once. Her boy is still in one piece because she did what the ankle monitor, the courts, and this child’s parents would not. Then she tried to keep the little would-be butcher from bleeding out on her floor. That is more mercy than he brought to her home.
Who else crashed the house? Amanda Wenger—mother of the perforated prince. Stephenson County’s website is her autobiography: page after page of cases, felonies included, plus a weapons charge. She needed an order of protection against Julius Pendleton, the boy’s sperm-donor father, which is the closest thing this clan has to a family crest. Now she wants cameras, crowds, and a check. She didn’t raise a son. She raised a problem and wants the someone to volunteer to hand her a payday.
Here’s an image from her Facebook page. Unsure if she’s working a hotel lobby looking for a “date” or auditioning for a cautionary pamphlet, or how vigorously those filters were applied. Gotta love the face and throat tattoos, though. They do a lot of the talking.
Amanda Wenger.
What did Amanda Wenger do inside the house? According to the homeowner, this 40-year-old mother of six stormed her home and physically battered her 13-year-old junior-high daughter. That’s felony conduct. Coming from a felon with a felony weapons case, call it muscle memory.
Hold your beer.
Dear old Julius—the sperm donor. Call him a father if you need a cheap laugh. He’s a career dirtbag with a travel hobby.
Here’s what he does in his spare time. From the Quad Cities News:
A Milan man was arrested after deputies with the Iowa State Patrol accused him of eluding them at speeds reaching 120 mph on I-80.
The criminal complaint filed in Scott County Court says on October 12 at about 2 a.m., Iowa State Patrol attempted a traffic stop on a vehicle at N. Brady Street and E. 42nd Street for driving 77 mph in the posted 35 mph zone and reckless driving. The defendant, identified as Julius Pendelton, 40, did not stop and deputies began a pursuit. Pendelton was stopped by Davenport Police and Iowa State Patrol deputies saw him flee from that traffic stop.
In-car radar showed Pendelton was driving 77 mph in the posted 35 mph zone on N. Brady Street at E. 37th Street and then run the red light at N. Brady Street/E. Kimberly Road. He passed numerous vehicles at more than double the posted speed limit. A fully marked Iowa State Patrol car tried to stop Pendelton with red/blue flashing lights and sirens, but he continued at a high rate of speed. The pursuit went to the north end of Davenport before getting onto I-80 eastbound. Pendelton did not stop at the red light at E. 53rd Street/N. Brady Street and reached speeds of 120 mph in the posted 65mph zone on I80. The complaint says he continued to drive in a reckless manner, with no due regard to other drivers.
Pendelton’s vehicle was spiked by LeClaire Police on I-80 EB mile marker 305 and refused to stop. He fled into Illinois and ISP discontinued the pursuit, notifying Rock Island County Sheriff. Rock Island County Sheriff’s deputies found the vehicle shortly after abandoned in a closed park in Rock Island County. The vehicle was locked and a 9 mm firearm was in plain view on the driver’s seat floor board. Deputies obtained a search warrant and the firearm was seized. Pendelton was identified by his Illinois driver’s license picture and paperwork from a car rental company showing him as the listed and only renter. Iowa State Patrol and Davenport Police identified him as the driver and sole occupant. Milan Police assisted with the investigation and spoke to Pendelton at one point. He told officers that his DNA should be on the firearm, as he had handled it before.
Julius Pendelton (sometimes spelled Pendleton, as if the second spelling might fool a cop or prosecutor) posed on the Fourth with his 13-year-old, both of them modeling ankle monitors like matching holiday jewelry. Not sure if they’re flashing gang signs or just suffering early-onset arthritis. Thank you, Facebook.
Meet Jasiyah, 13, and dad Julius. Note their matching electronic monitoring bracelets! Like father like son. Image via Facebook.
Hours later Dad hit the sauce, got “dissed” at a party, and pulled an illegal gun. Tough guy. Ankle bracelet and a Glock. Other adults were tired of the act. They took the pistol off him. Julius, thinking with the lizard that lives behind his forehead, kept coming. Somebody fed him his own gun—bullets first. Nine times.
The sad news? He lived. The consolation prize: a wheelchair. Good. The world has enough Julius Pendletons on two feet.
And these people want a protest.
They want you in the street for a monitored juvenile who chased children home on scooters, shoulder-checked the door, and tried to open a boy with a hunting knife. They want “justice” from the woman who refused to watch her son get stabbed and die on the linoleum. They want a payday dressed up as grief.
Insane? No. It’s a hustle. The only decent adult in this wreck is the mother who put a hole in the threat and then tried to save the threat’s life. A mother without a criminal history who has a FOID card and a carry license and is background checked twice a day every day of the year.
Wenger can keep her rally. Julius can keep his chair. Jasiyah can keep the scar as a receipt.
Everybody else can keep their children alive the same way she did: when the animals come through the door with a blade, you end the lesson before the lesson ends your kid.
If Jasiyah and his scooter infantry come back to make good on the murder talk, they may finally meet the back half of FAFO. For real. Just in case a free sample from the hunting knife and the shoulder through the door instance wasn’t enough for him.
The back half is a woman who already did this once, is armed again, and is done bleeding on behalf of other people’s children. One who now knows anyone who storms into her home in a violent and tumultuous manner is pretty much bought and paid for when it comes to self-defense law in the Land of Lincoln.
Wenger can keep the hashtag. Julius can keep the chair. The homeowner gets to keep her kids. That is the only justice in this story that was not a fundraising slogan.
