Father of 16-Year-Old Suspect in Jaleeyah Tune’s Murder Blasts Baby Mama After Son’s Arrest
GOLDSBORO, N.C. –A North Carolina father from Goldsboro, who now lives out of state is airing out all the family business—after learning his teenage son has been charged in the murder of a 13-year-old girl in Goldsboro.
On Christmas Day, Mansel Robinson posted an emotional Facebook video saying he had just found out his son was involved in the killing of 13-year-old Jaleeyah Tune, and claims his child’s mother never even bothered to tell him.
According to Robinson, his son had previously been living with him out of state, where he says he was trying to get the teen off the streets, back in school, among other positive stuff. But Robinson didn’t hold back when it came to blaming his son’s mother, Dominique Smith.
“But nah, his fing mama. His mama helped his a*s run away and go back to fing Goldsboro just to catch a murder charge,” Robinson said in the video.
Robinson alleged that Smith knew their son was involved in gang activity, wasn’t attending school, and was allegedly allowing the behavior to continue.
He said it wasn’t until his son was on the verge of getting locked up that the teen came to live with him—for about three months. He also said at one point in the video that Smith was also about to get locked up because their son wasn’t going to school.
“Instead of telling him, ‘Nah, you need to stay down there with your daddy because you f***ing your life up,’ now he about to be in prison for life,” Robinson told viewers.
Robinson said he and his wife had to do their own digging to even figure out that their son was one of the suspects involved in the case.
The father said he warned his son repeatedly that going back to Goldsboro would ruin his life.
Police say two 16-year-olds, Jy’Aere Smith, Josh Jordan and one 15-year-old have been charged in connection with Jaleeyah’s death. All three face firs-degree murder and conspiracy charges.
Robinson shared a photo of his son, 16-year-old Jy’Aere Smith with his mother. He goes by the nickname “Jah”.
The shooting happened Sunday as Jaleeyah was walking home with her older sister and friends to get food. Authorities say the suspects allegedly jumped out of bushes near the 200 block of Alpha Court and opened fire.
Jaleeyah was pronounced dead at the scene. She was seventh grader at Wayne Middle/High Academy.
Throughout the video, Robinson repeatedly claimed that Smith intentionally planned for their son to run away so she could bring him back to Goldsboro—despite knowing the dangerous path he was already on. Robinson also said that he will be talking to the DA to get charges against Smith because she allowed their son’s bad behavior to go on.
Robinson also recalled a time that Smith allegedly told their son to kill him and everybody inside his home.
60 thoughts on “NC Father Blasts Baby Mama After Son Charged In 13-Year-Old Jaleeyah Tune’s Murder”
What about the deceased child. What about this grieving family. To late to point, a finger at what parent did what.
American Ninja Warriors at work again🥷🥷🥷🥷🥷🥷
Not that this crime was Not wrong, becauseI dislike their actions. You’re also Wrong about “sending Ninjas back to the mother land” . In fact, last I known, this land is not home to those of the Caucasian persuasion🤔 You all are immigrants . This land is for the indigenous and Moors (black ppl). Ask those who erased Fort Negro, You know, that good ol RED flag that flew in Florida. Not Africa. Since this was posted from an NC site, LOOK UP DOBBS COUNTY , Yup that’s the county where this tragedy took place (now Goldsboro). There’s history All over , Now go do your homework/research before folk like you BELIEVE these lies about US. “US US” #PureIgnorance Im sorry this young lady loss her life senselessly. I’m sorry that boy did something so asinine, but I’m not sorry about calling you out about OUR history all over this world, not just “The motherland”
It is so sad that Mother’s be so butt hurt that they are not with the father’s that they do every thing they can to hurt the father by not allowing them into their children lives.
I will take it a step further for you. It’s a shame when two people who had children cannot learn to be adult enough to coherent so that their children do not go through these types of things. They are also situations where dad is so butt hurt that he doesn’t step up the way that he should even when mom may ask him too. A woman can’t raise a man, but it’s very difficult.
What??
Unfortunately a lot of these cases, one parent can be cordial and one can’t. Once one can’t it messes everything up. And the courts don’t use common sense and patterns when going through these custody cases so most times the order the judge comes up with fails the child/ children. Like giving the child to a mom who is only worried about hurting the father instead of actually being worried about parenting their child the right way. And yes it can go vice versa as well.
Then maybe black men should stop making babies and leaving them. Also, stop pretending that the mothers and the System are keeping you from your kids. It’s not just in America that black fathers skip out and mixed race kids with black fathers don’t see their dads either. Most end up in jail or on the pole- not in the White House (so atop with the Obama fantasy).
Yes, because the White House only has white child molesters and incest , so they don’t qualify.
Yesssssss I knew someone was thinking just like me well said
Having the same problems here in Beaumont TX these bitter a*s baby mamas be big mad that the fathers move on they the real reason these boys out here killing people thinking it’s hurting the men no bish you hurting the kids and now the don’t have no structure
Fake. You’re a dude. Stop trying to sell that…..’it’s the mothers fault” bs.
It’s sad when certain fathers rush to clear their names when their kids ….sons do evil stuff. When has a hood father EVER taken responsibility? It’s always someone else’s fault, isn’t it?! This guy has been living his new life for 15 years!!! But he acts like letting his son stay with him and his NEW FAMILY for a few months will solve anything?
If you completely read the article he said that the young man ran away from his house so he could go back to be with his mother. And yes in a lot of cases, the mother’s feelings get hurt because the father doesn’t want to be with them anymore so she keeps the child away from him as punishment. Some of them don’t care what the child does because they are more interested in a child support check. They will do their best to keep the father away but the moment they can’t do anything with the child then they want to blame the father for not being around. You can’t have it both ways
If the mom didnt undermine him and made the son stay it might have, if you’ve never lived it it’s not yours to understand put down your rocks and go make sure your life is perfect
That part! For those who know thw dynamic. This guy is a deadbeat, absentee father and only got involved with his son over the last 6 months cause thet finally were able to locate his whereabouts regarding a child support order!
He doesnt even have a job and is a married hobosexual. Now his rant has placed that family and the other minor aged children lives at risk.
Right. This the comment I was looking for fr. Smh we have to do better bout these kids.
Both parents are at fault. Dad clearly wasn’t involved based on his own words that he had to find out on his own that his son was in jail. Dad only knows what mom shares or what he digs up. His 16 year old son lived with him for 3 months. Sounds like dad relocated without a coparenting plan. Had he been a more active parent he would’ve been in constant communication with his son, summer visits, holiday visits. You don’t try to rectify a situation with a child you lack a relationship with and that’s exactly what dad rant sounds like. They both deadbeats
Girl, did you watch the video. Smh !!! How is the father at fault, do you know what he tried to do prior or just from this short video?
Dad didn’t even know what was going on at his school. Dad waited til the boy was 16 to get a hold on him. 3 months is not enough time to be a real parent. Where was he the other 15 to 16 years? Yes. He is at fault, too. Men try to step up AFTER the fact and say how much they tried but it’s someone else’s fault they couldn’t be a proper dad.
Who knows why he waited so late to contact him. The mom likely ran interference when the boy was younger out of spite/anger and made the decision not to keep him in the loop. He probably also went through the courts but that’s a joke because like the courts side with the mother majority of the times even if she’s a piece of sh**. A deadbeat father would continue to be a deadbeat even in this situation. This man tried to prevent this from happening but the mother had other plans. He should’ve stayed with his father cause clearly she had no control of him. Now he’s gone for life as he should be for what he did.
Right! Where was he all of the other times? Three months isn’t enough time to rectify a problem that’s been brewing for 15 years. There’s 3 sides to every story. His side, her side and the truth. I’ll bet he isn’t telling the whole truth. He’s only going to tell the part of the story that’s going to make him look good.
This the one!!! This makes a lot of sense!
Why are you pretending to be female? Second, the video proves NOTHING. This is just about black father trying to clear his name. Ask Brian McKnight why his sons were unstable, he blames the mother and “evil”.
This man obviously cared, he had his son and tried to get him on the right track. A deadbeat father would not have had him at all so I doubt he is a deadbeat.
He had to dig because he lives out of state and if the boy ran back to his mother she probably wasn’t keeping in touch with his father.
It’s a sad situation because had he stayed with his father the little girls mother may STILL have her baby and not been burying her at Christmas.
Facts… I’m a female and a mother…I’ve seen women keep their kids from their fathers out of spite & anguish. The results ended up hurting the kid and because of embarrassment the mothers never admitted they were wrong for letting emotions overtake allowing the kid/kids to be around their fathers. Everything not always the man fault..Having a kid in your home that’s gun happy is I’m sure scary not knowing what they may due & the news prove that regularly kids around here toting guns…The world is in mess the devil busy attacking our vulnerable youth.
He isn’t a deadbeat, go back, and read, and watch the video! The boy was living with him, and his wife, and the boy’s mother help him run away from the dad’s home. They don’t live in the same tow or state so how tf would he knows what goes on in that woman’s home!!! That man isn’t responsible, his mom should have left his with his dad!
THANK YOU, THEY BOTH FAILED THAT CHILD
How is the dad at fault when he was doing good with the dad and his wife? The dad gave him structure and discipline which clearly was lacking with the mother which is why he is where he is now. The mom helped him run away from the dad’s house just to run right into criminal charges while in her care so how is the dad at fault? Is the dad at fault because he chose to separate himself from a dead situation to do better but still be there for his son or is it because he didn’t get the law involved when he ran away? Or is it because maybe he didn’t go through the courts to get temporary custody? The mom failed her child not the dad.
I understand the father’s anger. But the one thing I didnt hear was sorrow for the child that lost her life. She and her family are the only ones that we should feel for.
Exactly, that’s what I was waiting to to hear. Also, why are we so quick to say it’s the dad’s fault? I don’t recall hearing him saying this was his first time getting his son. He may have tried co-parenting. He knew too much of his and mom’s life for him not to be involved in his life.
How is it the father’s fault? If what he is saying is true, it was so much he can do. He’s in a different state and trying for custody without presenting proof the mother is unfit is slim to none.
He definitely would’ve needed text messages or some solid proof and a good lawyer. Either way this is a sad situation.
The child was murdered for stupidity. This sounded like a gang initiation to randomly kill someone. My prayers go out to the young lady family.
My thoughts as well. Blaming the father makes no sense.
Perhaps if the father had been consistently engaged, setting standards, morals boundaries and demanding school attendance and achievement, he wouldn’t have had to “rough him up” to get his attention. The mother knew. The father knew too. The son had an absent parent and two neglectful parents, both failed him. If he’s guilty, both parents had a role in the child’s murder.
Be quiet
So you totally missed the entire party where his dad said I HAD HIM BUT HIS MAMA HELPED HIM RUN AWAY TO GO BACK TO THAT BS HE WAS ALREADY DOING. DAD WAS DOING HIS PART BUT RATCHET MAMA BROUGHT HER LITTLE THUG BACK AND LOOK WHAT HAPPENED… BLAME MOM
No one is listening to what the father is saying! How is he absent is he had him, and the mother helped him to go back Goldsboro! What he was supposed to stay with the momma! I’m trying to figure this out, the momma clearly knew what he was about, she in a picture with him doing gang signs, and posted it! Her a*s need to be charged too. Just cause you can have kids , don’t mean you need them… and clearly she didn’t
Right
Just because the parents are not in the same house doesn’t mean that they are absent parents now if that said parent wasn’t in the childs life at all that’s an absent parent. They live in different states so how did the father know he had to find out from other people
He clearly said he didn’t know. The mother helped the son moved back where she was and didn’t tell the father. More than likely she blocked him.
Girl STFU that man was in his lyfe this one on the mama be so quick to down play the dad at the end of the day the mama unfit
Huh?
That easier said than done a lot of times and I know from personal experience I’m living it now, the mom will purposely run interference and fill the kid with poison despite the dads efforts… people be on the internet acting like they know and understand everything
I agree a 100 percent . set up what you want for your child . That child was learning from the streets and not the home which is very easy to do if you don’t stay on their backs . He was away in prison himself . So the apple didn’t fall that far from the tree . So sad that we are losing our kids this way . My son was headed down that same road but I stayed on his tail as a single mother . I prayed hard and it worked . WE HAVE TO DO OUR PART AS PARENTS
Black women talk down bad on black men .Here comes a real man a father who wanted to save his sons life and his trifling mother let him ruin it ..so sad
You shole right about it!
White women, Mexican, Asians, Italian, African etc etc etc etc does the same when 2 parents don’t get alone. So stop speaking on a culture you don’t know, cause clearly you can’t be a black woman saying bullshit like that dafuk
It’s just as much his fault as is the mother. If dad really cared about his son’s welfare he would have gone to court and gotten custody of his son.
He probably did but the courts usually side with the mother, especially in NC.
Say that a little louder
Debra he tried, sometimes people be going through so much that they don’t have any fight left in them. That man care and he’s hurt. Don’t be that person
Nahhhhh…. It’s not just as much the dad’s fault sd it is the mothers. He took his child and provided a better life… if she assisted her son in running away and provided a safe haven for him to not attend school and freely attend the streets, then that’s her fault. Daddy tried. If what dad says is true, the little demon’s mom should be charged with neglect, for sure!
Courts normally will not give dad custody unless proof of negligent mom. She probably works the system to get her way & keep that child support coming.
In reference to your response, did you hear the father state that the son was with him and the mother assisted in him running away and back to Goldsboro? Having custody, taking him away from the toxic atmosphere did not count when the son was determined to go back. However, now he has a VERY LOOONNNGGG time to sit behind four walls and think about his decisions and actions and who he should’ve been listening to.
That Part
How you know he wasn’t in the process? Clearly, the son didn’t want to be there. That stuff takes a while.
This is so sad. I feel this father’s pain. I just hope he finds peace in knowing that he tried. The mother tho…no words. 🤦🏽♀️
This is so sad Mothers if a Dad wants to be a Dad and your son is in crisis LET HIM!! SO WHAT YALL NOT TOGETHER, SO WHAT HE MAY HAVE BEEN A SIMILAR CRISIS! You see has changed his life who better to lead him than his father who knows the road!… We are not MEN OR AN MELANIN one!
The Mother should be charged for the murder as well. If she had been doing her job as a mother she could have raised him better and corrected his behavior. And for a mother to tell her son to kill someone and everyone in the house, she is just as bad as her son. She was rightfully responsible for his acts.
I wholeheartedly agree
I AGREE I HAVE LIVED IT WHERE BOTH FATHERS AND MOTHERS POISON THE KIDS MIND JUST BECAUSE OF JEALOUSY FOR WHAT THE OTHER HAS OR IS DOING OR LIVING AND IT ALWAYS HURTS THE CHILD IN THE END. I DONT JUDGE AT ALL FOR I AM A SINNER AND MY GOD HAS FORGIVEN ME I DID MY TIME AND EVEN WITH THAT PAST ME 5YEARS GONE I STILL HAVE THE REST OF MY LIFE TO CONTINUE TO PAY I FEEL THE FATHER IS HURTING FOR THE GIRLS FAMILY I THINK HE GOT OUT OF THAT LIFE AND TRIED TO LEAD HIS SON ON THE RIGHT PATH I BELIEVE THE MOTHER ON OTHER HAND SHOULD BE CHARGED AND HELD ACCOUNTABLE ALL THE WAY ESPECIALLY FOR CONDONING THAT KIND OF LIFESTYLE AND THERE ARE MANY PTOGRAMS OUT THERE FOR ADOLESCENTS WHERE IT IS A TIGHT STRUCTURED PROGRAMS WHERE THEY GET TO REALLY SEE PEOPLE IN JAIL WHERE PEOPLE HAVE DONE SOMETHING TO BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE FOR THEIR CRIME. MAYBE THIS BOY WILL BE PRODUCTIVE IN PRISON AND SEE THE LIGHT THE TRUTH THAT THE WAY HE WAS LIVING ISNT THE WAY . I FEEL THE FATHER WAS KEPT FROM HIS SON AND THE COURTS IN NC ARE TRULY A JOKE AS I HAVE LIVED IT SO IN MY SITUAZION IS ONLY WHAT I SPEAK ON AND I TOLD MANY PEOPLE UNLESS YOU BEEN WHERE I HAVE DONE WHST I HAVE OR WALKED MY PATH DONT JUST JUDGE PEOPLE WE ALL NEED TO SUPPORT PEOPLE AND NOW MORE THAN ANY A FAMILY WHO LOST THEIR DAUGHTER AND A FAMILY WHO NOW HAS LOST A SON. HE HAS TO LIVE WITH THIS THE REAT OF HIS LIFE BUT IN THE END YES HE DID SOMETHING THAT CANT BE CHANGED OR FIXED BUT HE CAN CHOOSE TO DO BETTER AND LIVE LIKE HIS FATHER WAS TESCHIBG HIM TOO THE MOTHER SHOULD BE. CHARGED WITH KIDNAPPING,AND MAYBE EVEN CONSPIRACY TO MURDER SINCE THERE IS PROOF OF HER SUPPORTING NOT DISIPLINNING HER SON AND TESCHING HIM THAT GANGS AND VIOLENCE ARE OK ARE KOOL. SHE PROBABLY HAS LIVED INTHAT LIFE ALL HER LIFE AND JUST LIVES OFF ZHE SYSTEM BUT NEVER TAUGHZTHER KIDS THAT THERE IS BETTER WAYS TO DO THINGS AND HANDEL THINGS WITHOUT VIOLENCE. I PRAY FOR ALL INVOLVED I PRAY THAT THE FATHER WILL FIND PEACE NOWING THAT HE TRIED EVEN IF HE WASNT A CONSTANT FIGURE IN HIS LIFE WHAT MATTERS IS HE WAS THERE AND HE WAS TEACHING HIM T O DO RIGHT AND UTS NOT HIS FAULT HIS SON DID THIS.AND FOR THE MOTHER YES I DO HOPE SHE GET CHARGED IN SOMETHING WETHRR IT BE CHILD NEGLECT OR ABUSE OR FOR BASCILLY INCOURAGING HIM FOR SHE COULDVE HAD HIM LOCKED UP UNWILLINGLY IF IT CSME DOWN TOO HER NOT BEING ABLE TO HANDEL HIM.THERE ARE WAYS AND PROGRAMS OUT THERE ANYWAYS JUST MY OPINION. BUT JUST REMEMBER IN THE END “WE ARE ALL HUMAN WE ARE ALL SINNERS AND ANYONE OF YOU OUT THERE COULD BE LOCKED UP AT ANY GIVEN TIME FOR IM SURE ALL OF YALL ARE NOT PERFECT AND HAVE DONE SOMETHING IN YOUR LIFE TO JUSTIFY BEING ARRESSTED FOR A CRIME AND THE THING IS YOU JUST HAVENT BEEN CAUGHT.” BUT WILL THIS KID CHOOSE NOW TO DO GOOD AND DO SOMETHING LEARN SOMETHING TOBETTER HIMSELF WHILE HE IS IN PRISON. I PRAY HIS FATHER WILL STILL SUPPORT HIS SON LOVE GIM TELL HIM THAT AND REMIND HIM THAT JESUS LOVES HIM AND ITS ONE HARD A*S LESSON TO LEARN BUT WHSTS DONE IS DONE NOW EITHER ATAY LIVING THAT THUG LIFE OR GET OUT THERE AND MAKE GOOD BE A SUPPORT FOR THE NEXT GENERATION TEACH THEM YOUR STORY IN HOPES THAT THEIR STORY WONT BE JUST LIKE YOURS.
SINCERELY, B CARPENTER