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Higgs saw Tanji appear to write down his license plate number as she left, and he thought she was going to retaliate against him. Victor testified that Tanji made a threat as she left. Haynes talked to Tanji and got the knife away from her, however she was still mad and three woman left. Haynes and Tamika heard the commotion and came out to break up the fight. While at the apartment, the men smoked marijuana.ĭuring the early morning hours of January 27, Higgs and Tanji began arguing. The three couples went out, returning to Higgs’s apartment after buying alcohol. Higgs brought Willie Mark Haynes and Victor Gloria to Tanji’s apartment, where she was waiting with Tamika Black and Mishann Chinn. On Friday, January 26, 1996, Dustin Higgs and Tanji Jackson had arranged for some of their friends to go out.

At the time of his arrest, Dustin had a four-year-old son and was involved in the lives of relatives’ children. Dustin had to repeat second grade but was an average student throughout high school, where he was involved in sports and graduated at 19. He then went to live with extended family, where he experienced several deaths, some of which were violent. His father was uninvolved in his life and his mother died when he was 10 years old from cancer. Dustin has spent the last 20 years of his life on federal death row.ĭustin had a sad childhood. He was convicted of murdering 21-year-old Tanji Jackson, 19-year-old Tamika Black, and 23-year-old Mishann Chinn, on January 27, 1996, in Prince George County, in Maryland. His execution was delayed for several hours due to appeals. Dustin was pronounced dead at 1:23am local time, inside the execution chamber at the Federal Correction Complex in Terre Haute, Indiana. Dustin John Higgs was executed by the federal government on Saturday, January 15, 2021.
