A week after court outburst, men plead guilty to Miami Gardens double-murder
The two men who gunned down a church minister and her grandson inside her Miami Gardens home pleaded guilty on Wednesday — a week after one of the men rejected the same offer twice.
Reginald Louis Jackson, 40, entered into a 40-year plea deal for the killings of 70-year-old Annette Anderson, a church minister, and her grandson, 20-year-old Tyrone Walker Jr. Jackson’s co-defendant, Roderick Martin, 39, accepted a 25-year sentence.
If convicted at trial, Jackson and Martin were facing seven life sentences.
In July 2013, Anderson and Walker were found bound, gagged, tortured and shot to death in Anderson’s home, according to police. Anderson was an ordained minister with the Jesus People Ministries Church and hosted weekly Bible study sessions. Walker, nicknamed TJ, had been in South Florida for only three months after moving from Jacksonville to attend ITT Tech.
As he raised his right hand to plead guilty, Jackson turned to the gallery, frequently glancing at his loved ones. Martin looked at the judge with a neutral expression.
The pair, both dressed in orange jail attire, admitted to second-degree murder and a slew of other offenses, including robbery, kidnapping and burglary. The highly anticipated plea came exactly a week after Jackson stormed out of the courtroom, rejecting a deal because his family was not present. Martin, who wanted to take the plea last week, wasn’t able to because the offer was contingent on Jackson accepting the deal.
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The duo will likely get credit for the time they served behind bars in Miami-Dade. Jackson has spent almost 13 years — and Martin almost 11 — in jail.
Miami-Dade Circuit Court Judge Ellen Sue Venzer recounted how police found Anderson and Walker after they were brutally slain. Anderson had been cooking when she was ambushed, the judge said, because there was still food in the oven when their bodies were discovered three days later.
“What we don’t know is why. Why would they kill these two people who really had done nothing wrong?” Venzer said before asking the men to divulge the reason for the killings.
Both Jackson and Martin declined to speak.
“But you will have a whole lot of time to think about it,” Venzer said. “I hope you think about ... these folks you murdered in cold blood.”
Anderson’s and Walker’s family members, who attended the hearing via Zoom, agreed to the deal. They declined to speak during the hearing.
“Obviously, this was not the outcome we would have preferred ..., but after discussing it with the family, we believe that it is in the best interest of the family, the community and the defendant,” prosecutor Abbe Rifkin said. “The chapter is closed. The book will never be closed.”
Outside the courtroom, Jackson’s attorney, Jimmy Dellafera, told reporters that he felt “complete relief” for the families of the victims — and for Jackson’s loved ones. As Jackson was whisked away to be fingerprinted, several of his family members blew kisses and shouted, “We love you.”
“This was the case that would not close,” Dellafera said.
Execution-style murder
Within weeks, detectives arrested Jackson, a neighbor whose fingerprints and DNA were found inside the home, according to authorities. Police tracked Jackson to his girlfriend’s apartment in Opa-locka. There, they found a 2001, two-door, silver Acura that matched the video surveillance of a car leaving Anderson’s home.
Jackson, authorities say, made two phone calls to Anderson’s home on July 13, shortly before she was killed. DNA and cellphone records tied Martin to the crime scene, according to police.
Jackson and Martin were initially facing the death penalty for the murders. In 2022, a judge found Jackson intellectually disabled, which bars him from the death penalty. Prosecutors appealed the judge’s ruling, which the Third District Court of Appeal affirmed last December. On March 30, prosecutors waived the death penalty for Martin.
In the months before the crime, Jackson had been released from prison after serving a five-year sentence for a series of burglaries. Jackson, at the time of the murders, was on probation — and Martin was out on bond awaiting trial for an unrelated charge of illegally carrying a firearm.
This story was originally published April 29, 2026 at 12:58 PM.
