At the three-month mark of his passing, McKis’s sister posted in July 2025. She wrote that she had not been thinking when she climbed under the truck trying to reach him. That it was an image embedded in her — a pain she was still carrying, a sight she could not unsee.
On March 13th, 2026, a Jefferson County grand jury formally indicted Chhatise Renee Jackson on capital homicide. The indictment was made public on March 23rd, 2026.
When the indictment went public, Jennifer Bostik posted in response. She wrote about her son being one of a kind — a good-hearted young man who had tried to give Chhatise the world, who had loved and provided for children that were not even biologically his. She said nothing was ever enough for her. The pain still felt raw nearly a year later.
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In September 2023, McKis had reposted something that read: “Lord, if I don’t ask you for nothing else, please keep me here for my kids because they keep taking these mothers and fathers away from their babies.”
Less than two years later, his children became the ones left behind.
Back in the summer of 2018, McKis had posted about the way the enemy tends to show up specifically during the holidays.
It was on Easter Sunday — one of the most significant days of the year — that he never made it home.
As of now, the case remains active. Chhatise Renee Jackson is still in the Jefferson County Jail without bond, awaiting trial. The same woman he had loved, celebrated, and provided for walked into a courtroom days later — smiling, laughing, showing not even a trace of the weight of what she had taken from those children, that family, and that community.
The world keeps spinning.a
