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Criminal Records - Most Wanted |
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Profile |
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Name: Jason Arthur Mori
(James Arthur Cupp, Jason Hagelbarger)
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Race: White |
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Age Now: 29 |
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Height: 5'6" |
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Weight: 145 lbs |
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Hair (Color, Description, Facial Hair): Blond
Mori shaves his head.
Mori has a large, bushy beard. |
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Eyes (Color and Correction): Blue |
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Other Physical Characteristics: May have wounds on his legs from incident. |
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Wanted for :
Homicide, Redding, CA;
Apr 09, 2004
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Location(s) |
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Last Seen : Bakersfield, CA
Coalinga, CA
Police say Mori was driven out of town by a woman, Helena Leganza.
She dropped him off at a Chevron gas station in Bakersfield.
Officials have record of Mori using an ATM card In Coalinga. |
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Possible Location : Coalinga, CA
Bakersfield, CA
Huntington Beach, CA
Mori has family around California |
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Last Known : Unkown |
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Traits |
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Accomplished outdoorsman. |
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Self-professed White Supremicist. |
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Case Story |
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Racial Epithet Sets Off White Supremicist |
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Jason Mori takes pride in his self-avowed racism. He has adorned himself in tatoos which show off symbols and mottos of white supremacy. It doesn't take much to provoke Mori's anger.
No one knew this better than his ex-girlfriend, Jeanette Gibson. When the two broke up, Jeanette says Mori called repeatedly, spewing angry epithets. On April 7, 2004, it Jeanette says it became too much-- and in a fit of frustration, Jeanette called Mori the one slur that would most anger him, an epithet towards African-Americans. Cops say it was just too much for Mori to take-- they say he got in his car and went to Jeanette's house.
When he arrived, cops say he pulled out a shotgun and threatened to kill Jeanette. A friend, John Dell'Amico, kept Mori from her and got him to leave. But before he did, Mori took one parting shot-- with his shot gun. No one was hurt, but Jeanette called the cops and Mori was arrested. |
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Mori's Anger Leads To Violence |
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Two days later, Mori was released from jail. Almost immediately Mori called for Jeanette, leaving several angry messages, calling her and her friends "cop callers" and "pieces of s***." Jeanette ignored him, but that didn't keep Mori from getting even angrier.
Cops say Mori got in his friend's, John Pires, truck and made a bee-line to Dell'Amico's house. When he arrived, Dell'Amico, Gibson and two others, Michelle Toutant and Rodney Bates were there. At first, Mori and Dell Amico were calm, but tempers soon flared and voices got louder. Then, cops say, Mori said, "We will settle this right now." Mori allegedly went to his truck and pulled out a shotgun. Rodney Bates reacted quickly, and it cost him his life. Rodney grabbed Mori's shotgun, just as Mori pulled the trigger. The shot hit Rodney squarely in the chest, killing him.
Dell'Amico then grabbed the gun, keeping Mori from reloading. Michelle Toutant then says she grabbed the first sharp thing she could find and stabbed Mori multiple times in the leg. Mori told Pires to start driving, hopped into the car and tore off. He ditched the shotgun along the way. |
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Mori Allegedly Confesses |
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With the help of another girlfriend, Mori took off. Cops were alerted, too late, about Rodney Bates and questioned all the witnesses to the alleged crime. They caught up with John Pires, the accused getaway driver, who told them what he knew and where to find the shotgun. When they recovered it, police found Mori's fingerprints all over. Now all they needed to find was Mori.
Police got in contact with the woman allegedly aiding Mori, Helene Brooke Leganza. She allegedly admitting to driving him away and got police in touch with Mori. Cops say that while on the phone, Mori admitted to the killing, saying that the group had accused of him of being a "cop helper". He said that because he had been released from the weapons charge on his own reconizance, Jeanette and his friends assumed that he was now "working" with the police. Police say Mori said he just wanted to work things out when he went to Jeanette's house.
Now police believe Mori may be in Southern california where Mori has friends, but more likely will be living in the woods somewhere in Northern California. |
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