MCS Report #611
Classification: Homicide
Requesting Agency: Belleville Police Department
Date of Activation: 03/07/2016
Commander and Department: Lt. Matt Eiskant, Belleville PD
Deputy Report Officer and Department: Lt. Kirk Brueggeman, O’Fallon PD
Deputy Report Officer and Department: Sgt. Rob Thomason, Belleville PD
Victim: Nathan Richard Funkhouser
Suspects: Jeremy Nichols Jackson
The Belleville Police Department requested the assistance of the Major Case Squad in investigating the death of Nathan Funkhouser. On 03-06-2016 at 9:19pm, police officers responded to Nathan Funkhouser’s apartment in the 500 block of North 40th Street for a request to check the well-being of Funkhouser (age 34). Officers discovered Funkhouser dead inside his apartment from being stabbed in the chest and blunt force trauma.
As a result of this investigation, Jeremy Jackson (age 33) was charged with 1st Degree Murder. His bond was set at $800,000.
