LANCASTER – A 59-year-old Lake Los Angeles woman was charged Thursday with killing her boyfriend by striking him in the head with cans of food, the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office announced.
Linda Clarene Jackson faces one count of murder in connection with the death of 59-year-old David Ruiz, who was found dead Tuesday, June 16, in the 40200 block of 164th Street East.
Jackson allegedly killed Ruiz while he was at her house by bludgeoning him in the head with canned foods, according to Deputy District Attorney Jon Hatami. Details about a possible motive for the killing were not released.
Palmdale Sheriff’s Station responded to the area around 1:20 p.m. June 16 regarding a person injured and bleeding, sheriff’s officials said. Deputies found a victim bleeding and unresponsive, and the victim was pronounced dead at the scene.
Jackson was arrested around 3:15 p.m. Tuesday and booked at the Lancaster Sheriff’s Station around 3:50 a.m. Wednesday, according to LASD inmate records.
The felony complaint filed Thursday alleges Jackson used canned food as a deadly and dangerous weapon and that she was convicted in 2005 for making criminal threats, the prosecutor said.
She is scheduled to be arraigned Friday in a Lancaster courtroom.
Hatami will recommend more than $1 million bail for the defendant.
If convicted as charged, Jackson faces life in state prison.
The case remains under investigation by the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department.
UPDATED 6.19.15. Linda Clarene Jackson’s arraignment has been postponed to Monday, June 22.
UPDATED 6.22.15. Linda Clarene Jackson’s arraignment has now been postponed to Wednesday, July 22. We will continue to follow this story.
UPDATED 7.22.15: Arraignment for Linda Jackson has been postponed again, this time until Aug.31. We are still following this story.
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Ashleigh says
This is my grandmother you guys are talking about and what people my not know or care about
Is it was an accident she didn’t mean to kill him that wasn’t her plan
I was raised by my grandmother
This was an honest accident
I’m sorry about David death also
And no one was ever laughing or making it seem like it was okay
So while u guys are commenting
Just note regardless of what the press and his family is saying
This was an accident
Truly and accident David loved my grandma that’s why he never went home they had there own relationship so God bless u all
ruiz says
I hope this bitch rots in hell for killing my brother
sandra says
You people are very funny
ruiz says
you pieces of [removed] that is my older brother that your talking about you people have much time on your hands you need to put a cork in your mouth!!!
ruiz says
rest in peace brother
really now?? says
As the Hunts for the killer took place, the police were able to condense their search as they beat the Bushs for evidence. the initial thought was that Bumble Bees caused this tragedy, finding him there at the scene. Trader Joe called out to the police that he saw a Green Giant do it, but that was quickly dismissed as an old codger exposed to too much Ocean Spray.
Detectives Campbell and Heinz grew weary and Borden as they pieced together the Dinty Moore pieces of evidence. But as the case Progresso, they finally got a break. It was at the corner of Las Palmas and Del Monte when all the generic details began to form and the StarKist aligned. Those investigators dug through the Spam, and preserved it together into one Green Giant of a case. Now this Goya is going to go to jail.
Increase the peas.
Lysa says
Everyone with the rude comments should be ASHAMED of yourselves!! My uncles brother has lost his life, and in such a tragic way! An INNOCENT man who died at the hands of an evil, demonic piece of scum!! If it was a family member of yours; I can assure you that you would not find ANY humor in it, at all!! May god have mercy on your souls when he opens up the book of life!! *RIP DAVID RUIZ* You will be missed.
Proverbs 11:21 “The wicked will not go unpunished.”
Confused says
Lysa is bringing hell fire with her. I caution that the devil will quote scripture. You’re not the devil are you?
israel says
First of all this aint no laughing matter this person that passed away is my wifes uncle a very respectable man….good hearted person….he will be missed very much…R.I.P David….much respect….
Me says
My condolences to you Sir.
and may this gentleman rest in peace.
But I dont see any one commenting here, laughing about the person that dyed.
el pato says
I have a concealed can of el pato tomato sauce and Im not afraid to use it to defend my self.
so people, please get over it, just think how good this is.now that the govertment is trying to take away the guns from us, but the good thing is we can now buy lots of can food and have them ready.
the new era of weaponry has begun.
Arpallo says
Hey man!
Dont you start giving ideas to the USA military because soon they going to attack Russia with canned food.
How about Pinto Beans?
Tim Scott says
Too late. They already have the idea. When I was in the military we did plenty of training and planning to get accustomed to using “weapons of opportunity”…and that was a long time ago.
Concerned says
First of all, my condolences to the Ruiz family. I hope she is getting the help she needs. All these jokes and comments are not helping these families with there pain and suffering. If could walk a mile in there shoes… You would feel the weight on they are carrying.
Confused says
You’re comment really struck home. Everyone needs to can it with these jokes. Imagine the pain you’d be feeling if someone in your family beat someone to death. Empathy and prayer time. You’re comment reminds me of the South Carolina judge that asked people to remember that their are other victims, such as the family of the murderer. Poor murderer. Pour murderers family. I will pay for them right now.
Uncivil Warrior says
If you could walk a mile in their shoes!
-…then I’d be them!
I cannot because my family had values and were raised with a bleak outlook for peace, unless we took the necessary steps to avoid war. A passive arsenal is always the sharpest one.
Feel the weight on their shoulders.
-Don’t have to…i walk the straight and narrow. I carry a piece if someone takes it too far and threatens my family,other than that…natural causes and disease are the only killers of my lineage due to a vigilant attitude, passive aggressive mentality and a will to maintain logic in a world without reasoning.
The moment one feels the need to carry out a delusion…they have fallen from that narrow path.
They euthanize rabid animals.
Greg says
Less canned food, more fresh or frozen would lessen the weight.
You are correct though, even the perpetrator can be a victim of their own actions during a heat of the moment crime. Extended family and friends always have to deal with the aftermath of the incident.
Mark says
I have found hope for humanity in these comments
Bad Timing says
CAN you believe it? I’ve heard of The Closer… would they call in The Opener?
This is what we’re REDUCED to! Condensed into a world of chaos! Cluttered with the noodles of life!
Diego Del Monte says
I’ve heard of this before, but it usually also involved a pillowcase. Did I say that out loud? Never mind me, I’m just a crazy old man.
can man says
ONLY IN THE AV… we can’t have a “sexy” murderer like Jodi Arias or glamorous like the Mendez Brothers… instead, we get “death by Campbell’s Chicken Soup can”. I can’t wait to see this one on “Snapped”…
Datura says
The comments here are beyond stupid and heartless. But, really, whoever wrote and titled this article is to blame. An innocent man lost his life. According to some of the comments from family members on the Facebook page, he was mentally ill and vulnerable. I can’t help notice that you go out of your way to mention that he was killed with canned food at least four times: once in the title and then three more times in the article. Way to turn this man’s death into a circus side show. This isn’t a joke. As with any local crime, the family of the victim is reading this.
Brugmansia says
Well said.
Blossom says
These comments aren’t so funny, you idiots wouldn’t be making fun and laughing if your loved one had been killed. What goes around comes around, don’t forget!
deb says
what brand did she use? libbys, del monte, or a cheaper brand? were they expired? they should make her eat them and nothing else for the rest of her life.stupid too bad she didn’t use frozen veggies..he might still be alive. r.i.p. dude.
William says
@deb
In an old Alfred Hitchcock teevee show, a wife kills hubby by clobbering him with a frozen leg of lamb….
Later, she thaws it and roasts it and serves it to the detectives who came to investigate the murder but are unable to find the murder weapon.
really now?? says
Cans don’t kill people. People who own cans kill people.
Contact your lawmakers to support background checks at all grocery stores.
omg says
Dear god please don’t be mad, and may this fella rest in peace.. But I can’t stop laughing at these comments
saaaay what?? says
TO OMG…
yes I have to agree with you!!!
Forgive me God for the smile on my face as I read through these comments…
brlenox@yahoo.com says
Pretty soon we’ll have to register our canned goods or get conceal and eat permits….
really says
you people are really sick making jokes about this. A MAN IS DEAD you disrespectful pigs.
Romeo says
It’s possible that we are being hasty reading this as a simple tragedy. For while it’s true a man is dead, I heard it on the grapevine that her motive for canning him was to PRESERVE their special love.
really now?? says
“Life does not cease to be funny when people die, any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.” – George Bernard Shaw
Get over yourself.
Greg Williams says
If there were canned beets in that bag, she definitely planned this…she beet him to death.
Johnny Trece says
I would have never ever thought of that one. Can you imagined being killed by food instantly, taking away the allergy or poison element out of course?
really now?? says
If that’s the case, there are quite a few restaurants in the AV with serial killers in the making…
really now?? says
She must be an HR professional… Good thing she didn’t work for the fire department. They probably would have found him char-broiled.
Tim Scott says
Human resources departments train their staff to kill with canned goods? That’s a scary concept…
really now?? says
Sure do. They got me when the layoffs hit in 2008… and then again in 2010. Canned twice in one lifetime. Guess he only had one in him.
Bitch says
WTF
Delilalala says
“SNAPPED?”
st3psp8 says
You got that right! One too many episodes
brle says
A veggie tale.
David was a leanin’ on his honey for support
she’d find him on the couch caressing his dog sport
a couch potato she complained, then she had a whim
he’ll not stay here any more…so she canned him
Linda always said he was silly and just dense
and she hoped the day would come and he’d get his comeuppance
but oft as time is want to do as it passes like slow gin
impatience got the best of her and alas she simply canned him
Let us all take a lesson from this veggie tale morose
only bludgeon with the peas ‘til they’re barely comatose
for though someone is a pain, murder is the greater sin
and now the state will can her a$$ just like she canned him
really now?? says
This is brilliant.. <>