2 mopped up blood after fatal shooting

Jesse Garza

Nov. 6, 2009 (McClatchy-Tribune Regional News delivered by Newstex) -- The 12-year-old daughter of an admitted crack cocaine dealer helped her mother clean up the blood of a man who was accidentally shot to death in their home by her mother's boyfriend, according to a criminal complaint released Thursday.

The girl's 15-year-old sister also helped the boyfriend move the victim to a car in which he was driven to a hospital and left by the alleged shooter, according to the complaint.

The mother, Ameka Jacobs, 32, and Dominque D. Rainey, 23, each are charged in the death of Tyress L. Clark, 23.

Rainey is charged with second-degree reckless homicide, use of a dangerous weapon, and possession with intent to deliver a controlled substance.

Jacobs is charged with aiding a felon (falsifying information).

Both were being held in the Milwaukee County Jail Thursday night, Rainey on $100,000 cash bail and Jacobs on $5,000 cash bail, according to the jail's Web site.

According to the complaint and an affidavit used for a search warrant:

On Monday evening a dark-colored, older model vehicle pulled into the ambulance bay at Sinai Samaritan Medical Center. Medical workers found Clark lying nude in the back seat and a large amount of blood inside the car.

Rainey spoke briefly to hospital staff before driving off. He later returned to the hospital, saying that he left to inform Clark's family that Clark had been shot.

Rainey first told police that he found Clark shot outside Jacobs' home and brought him into her house before driving him to the hospital.

Investigators, however, did not find any blood or other evidence of a shooting outside the residence and instead smelled a strong odor of bleach inside and found blood on the home's floors, walls and other surfaces.

Rainey later said he accidentally shot Clark in Jacobs' living room while handling a .25 caliber handgun.

After Clark collapsed, Jacobs' 15-year-old daughter helped Rainey move him downstairs to the car, the complaint said. She then went upstairs and saw her 12-year-old sister mopping blood off the floor with a bucket and a mixture of bleach, peroxide and dishwashing detergent.

Jacobs told police that after the shooting at Rainey's direction, she hid the gun in a Teddy bear, where they typically hid the firearm along with crack cocaine that they sold.

Also at Rainey's direction, Jacobs said, she told the 15-year-old to get a bucket that she used for the mixture that was used to clean up Clark's blood.

Police searched the trunk of Rainey's car and found 57 packets of cocaine base, along with a .25 caliber handgun stuffed inside a Teddy bear, according to the complaint.

Ryan Haggerty of the Journal Sentinel staff contributed to this report.

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