Lady Gaga’s dogwalker is urging his alleged shooter to face the music after he was mistakenly freed from a Los Angeles jail for a ‘spelling mistake’.
“While I am deeply concerned by the events leading up to his release, I am confident that law enforcement will rectify the mistake,” Ryan Fischer wrote on Instagram on Friday.
James Howard Jackson, 19, is one of three men accused of shooting and robbing Fischer in February 2021. He was released from custody on Wednesday after records falsely showed the charges against him had been dropped. This was announced by the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department.
Fischer was shot and robbed in Los Angeles last year while walking the pop singer’s French bulldogs. Instagram
Lady Gaga said her “heart is sick” after her dogs were stolen last year. Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP
“I urge Mr. Jackson to turn himself in to the authorities to proceed with the investigation of the crime committed against me, whatever the outcome of the courts,” Fischer wrote.
Fischer was shot in the chest and suffered a collapsed lung in the attack, which was caught on video. Lady Gaga’s bulldogs Koji and Gustav were kidnapped by the attackers.
Jackson was arrested in April 2021 along with Jaylin White and Lafayette Whaley. Each man was charged with attempted murder and robbery under the dog-for-cash scheme. The trio of gangsters appeared unaware that Lady Gaga owned the dogs, police said.
The cover of the February 26, 2021 Post.
Two other people, Jennifer McBride and Harold White, have been charged as accomplices in the crime, officials said.
The group reportedly recruited McBride as a good Samaritan after Lady Gaga offered a $500,000 reward for the puppies. McBride arrived at an LAPD station and claimed she found the two dogs, police said. She never received the award after officials became suspicious of her story.
Gaga, meanwhile, was reunited with her dogs when cops patched the story together and connected McBride to the others.
The superstar actress said her “heart is sick” after dognapping.