A man arrested last year after allegedly speeding, fleeing from police and subsequently attempting to carjack another driver on I-95 in Lorton will serve time in federal prison for gun possession.
Jamarion Dawon Jackson, 23, was sentenced today (Tuesday) to four years in prison after pleading guilty in April to possessing a machine gun during the police chase and carjacking incident, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Virginia announced.
According to court documents, a Virginia State Police (VSP) trooper was patrolling a congested area of southbound I-95 near the Pohick Road overpass on April 17, 2025 when a driver sped past him at over 100 mph on the highway’s right shoulder in a sedan.
The trooper turned on his siren and pursued the driver, who was later identified as Jackson.
“The defendant did not respond to the Trooper’s signal and subsequently crashed into a parked vehicle on the right shoulder, inflicting thousands of dollars in damage, and then struck two additional vehicles on the roadway,” federal prosecutors said in a statement of facts.
Continuing to flee down I-95 on foot, Jackson tried to enter two vehicles before finding a third with a rolled-down window on the passenger side that he attempted to jump through. However, the vehicle’s driver saw that Jackson was trying to get in and accelerated, causing him to fall and get struck.
Jackson was transported to a hospital for “significant” injuries sustained in the crash, including a fractured neck and collapsed lung, per court documents.
When searching Jackson’s car, the VSP trooper found a Glock semi-automatic pistol on the driver’s side floorboard outfitted with “a machinegun conversion device and a 31-round magazine,” the Justice Department statement says.
Per court documents, texts and photos on Jackson’s phone, which was found in the sedan, showed him holding the pistol and discussing the purchases of both the gun itself and the conversion device.
According to the statement of facts:
Tracing by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (“ATF”) determined that the defendant’s Glock pistol was manufactured in Austria and sold in Texas. ATF testing also determined that, with the installed machinegun conversion device, the Glock pistol shoots automatically more than one shot, without manual reloading, by a single function of the trigger. The attached machinegun conversion device does not bear a serial number.
Jackson initially faced several charges for the incident in Fairfax County General District Court, including for carjacking, eluding police, carrying a loaded firearm in public, gun possession and possession of an “auto sear.”
All of those charges were dropped at a preliminary hearing on Jan. 7 so the case could be moved to federal court, a spokesperson for the Fairfax County Commonwealth’s Attorney’s Office confirmed to FFXnow.
Man previously pleaded guilty to mall shooting
Jackson was indicted by a grand jury in Alexandria on Feb. 4 for possessing a machine gun and possessing a firearm as a “prohibited person,” specifically as someone previously convicted of crime punishable by more than a year in prison.
Jackson was previously arrested in January 2022 for shooting another man in a fashion store at Potomac Mills mall in Woodbridge on Nov. 18, 2021. Before the case could go to trial, he pleaded guilty on Sept. 6, 2022 to carrying a concealed weapon, destroying property worth over $1,000 and unlawfully discharging a firearm in an occupied building, court records show.
He was sentenced on Nov. 10, 2022 to 11 years in prison with all but the time already served suspended, along with five years of supervised probation.
“The Virginia Sentencing Guidelines recommended a sentence of one day to 6 months and the defendant had already served approximately 11 months at the time of the sentencing,” Prince William County Commonwealth’s Attorney Amy Ashworth said by email. “… I don’t have specific notes on why this case was worked out the way that it was except I see that there were some issues regarding the willingness of witnesses to appear and testify.”
In light of the federal court case for the I-95 incident, Prince William County General District Court issued a capais or arrest warrant for Jackson on April 22 for violating the terms of his probation, suggesting he could be required to serve the suspended portion of his sentence for the shooting after he’s released from federal prison.
As part of the plea agreement reached on April 7, federal prosecutors dismissed the charge of firearm possession by a convicted felon, leaving the machine gun charge that carried a maximum possible sentence of 10 years in prison and a fine of $250,000.
According to court documents, the U.S. Attorney’s Office had argued for a sentence of 63 months’ imprisonment, or more than five years, followed by three years of supervised release.
“The government respectfully submits that a 63-month sentence is necessary to account for the seriousness of the offense, Jackson’s violent criminal history, and the need to deter him from further crimes and protect the public,” acting U.S. Attorney General Todd Blanche said in a June 16 memo, contending that the “leniency” shown in the sentencing for the Potomac Mills shooting “unfortunately, did not spur Jackson to reform.”
Meanwhile, Geremy Kamens, the federal public defender representing Jackson in the I-95 case, requested a sentence of no more than 27 months, presenting a letter from Jackson himself and statements from family and friends as evidence that he “has matured and learned from his offense and the consequences he has already faced.”
In addition to suffering from physical injuries sustained after he was struck by the driver whose vehicle he tried to enter, Jackson expressed regret for missing his daughter’s first birthday and the time he has spent separated from his family as a result of his incarceration. He said he has been taking self-improvement and educational courses while in jail with the goal of returning “to society as a productive, responsible and law abiding citizen.”
“I understand that consequences are necessary, and I accept responsibilities for my actions,” Jackson wrote in his letter to the court. “I only ask for the opportunity to return to my family sooner so I can continue proving through my actions and not just my words – that I am capable of change.”
