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Man blamed for killing Lady Gaga’s dog walker gets out of jail

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Man blamed for killing Lady Gaga’s dog walker gets out of jail

The man who was blamed for killing Lady Gaga’s dog walker last year was released from jail – due to a clerical mistake.

James Howard Jackson, 18, was one of the three men charged in the robbery and shooting of dog walker Ryan Fischer was released from court on Wednesday after archives designated that the charges against him were dropped.

According to the LA County District Attorney’s Office, the sacked charges were supposed to be replaced by an overriding grand jury indictment unsealed in Wednesday’s hearing.

In April 2021, Jackson was arrested alongside Jaylin White, 19, and Lafayette Whaley, 27.

Prosecutors said all three were charged with endeavored robbery and murder for the dogs-for-cash plot.

Officials said that Jennifer McBride, 51, and Harold White were also charged as accessories to the crime. All of the suspects, except for McBride, reportedly have gang ties.

At the time of the perpetrators’ arrests, they didn’t know that Lady Gaga owned the dogs, police said.

They got a grip on two of Gaga’s French bulldogs (Koji and Gustav), who were returned unharmed after a woman showed up at a Los Angeles police station with them.

The third Frenchie, Miss Asia, stayed with Fischer after he had been seriously hurt in the robbery when Jackson shot him in the chest.

Gaga was filming in Italy but called him a “hero” during the event.

After Gaga offered half a million dollars in reward for the pups “with no questions asked”, the group recruited McBride to act heroic and show up at an LAPD station with the dogs to say she found the two pups.

She didn’t get the reward after officials became suspicious of her story.

Gaga got reunited with her dogs as cops grouped the story together and connected McBride with the others.

Fischer did agonize from severe wounds, including a collapsed lung, and was hospitalized for nearly a month.

And with the latest news, he posted two Instagram Stories to share screenshots of news articles discussing the mistaken release.