'I put a bullet in her brain': Teen admits to pulling 9 mm from lunch box to kill woman because she wouldn't give him a ride

A 16-year-old Idaho lad pleaded blameworthy to shooting a pistillate to decease with a stolen weapon due to the fact that helium said she wouldn't springiness him a ride and helium thought that her brothers had a relation successful his friend's death.

"I enactment a slug successful her brain," the fishy Bobby Grant Jackson Jr. reportedly told cops, referring to the victim, 30-year-old Rebecca Rivera.

Jackson pleaded blameworthy to second-degree murder successful the shooting decease that occurred Oct. 23, 2025, successful Blackfoot, immoderate 250 miles eastbound of Boise, per tribunal records. As portion of the plea deal, prosecutors dropped the first-degree execution charge. Prosecutors told section quality website EastIdahoNews that the plea statement calls for a condemnation betwixt 20 and 27 years down bars. He's slated to beryllium sentenced connected March 4.

As Law&Crime previously reported, household members recovered Rivera dormant from a gunshot coiled astir 4 p.m. astatine her mobile location successful the 1100 artifact of Broadway Street.

A probable origin apprehension affidavit obtained by Law&Crime said Jackson was moving earlier that time for a subcontractor renovating a hospital. An worker told investigators that Jackson had asked to spell to the bath and was gone a agelong time. The antheral went looking for Jackson and realized that a handgun helium had wrong a luncheon container successful his motortruck was missing and Jackson was obscurity to beryllium found. The worker called police.

Officers obtained surveillance footage that showed Jackson participate the motortruck and drawback something. Detectives aboriginal followed up with the weapon proprietor and gathered the aforesaid ammunition helium had said was successful the weapon erstwhile it was stolen, the Idaho State Journal reported. Detectives compared the bullets and recovered a matching signifier from the ammunition casing recovered astatine Rivera's home, constabulary reportedly said.

Investigators learned that Jackson had been surviving astatine a halfway location portion connected probation from a erstwhile apprehension for equipped robbery. An worker astatine the halfway location told cops Jackson's telephone showed helium was astatine a state presumption successful the 900 artifact of Broadway Street, which is conscionable down the thoroughfare from the execution scene.

Detectives spoke with Rivera's neighbors, who said they saw Jackson earlier successful the time asking for a ride. Surveillance images confirmed helium was astatine the trailer parkland sometime aft 12:40 p.m. Investigators besides recovered that Rivera was murdered with a 9 mm handgun — the aforesaid benignant of limb that Jackson allegedly stole from the worksite.

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An apprehension warrant was initially obtained for second-degree murder, and cops took Jackson into custody the time aft the execution astatine a location successful Pocatello. Cops accidental Jackson had "no known relationship" with Rivera. EastIdahoNews obtained an amended ailment that contained Jackson's interrogation with detectives.

Investigators reportedly wrote that Jackson asked Rivera for a thrust and erstwhile she said no, helium said "f— it" and went into the trailer and killed her. He besides claimed that helium recognized Rivera and "believed her brothers had killed his friend," the affidavit reportedly said. When asked if helium killed Rivera arsenic payback, helium reportedly answered successful the affirmative.

"I enactment a slug successful her brain," helium allegedly said.