Montgomery AL Man Who Terrorized Neighborhood Headed to Jail

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MONTGOMERY, AL (WSFA) -
Residents in the Dalraida area of Montgomery are relieved knowing that the man who wreaked havoc and incited fear in their neighborhood for years is now facing serious time behind bars.

Jason Clark, 45, stalked his neighbors, poisoned lawns and even made death threats.

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For Joe Gross, it's not easy to return to his former neighborhood.

“I lost my home. I lost my dog,” he said. “I don't even come over here because it's just got such horrible memories.”

Gross gave his house on South Georgetown Drive to his church to get away from Jason Clark, who lived next door.

He moved to Pensacola two years ago because he could no longer live next to Clark and his threats. He couldn’t sell the home because Clark harassed the realtors.

“He assaulted me in the street. He continued to threaten me and tell me that he was going to get me and that I better enjoy life while I could,” Gross said. “It was horrible living there.”

Gross donated his house to his parish and Montgomery Catholic High to be able to leave the neighborhood.

He says Clark killed his grass and plants by spraying chemicals.

“I really enjoyed being out in my yard and working in the yard, then after he sprayed the chemicals, my dog developed nerve damage and I eventually had to have her put to sleep,” Gross added.

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Some neighbors were scared to get their mail, let their dogs out or be in their yards. Clark would also shine big flashlights with a strobe feature at passing cars to disorient drivers at night.

Tyler Norris has lived next to Clark for four years. His wife, Kristin, is one of the victims Clark admitted to stalking in court Monday.

“It's been very scary to live at my house. When I get home from work or from anywhere, I have to run inside just because I'm afraid that there's going to be a guy jumping out of the bushes with a flashlight in my face and yelling things at me that you don't want to hear when you get off of work,” Norris said.

Norris added that he “could go on for days” about what Clark put his family through. He says Clark even recorded phone calls that Norris answered inside his house and played the conversations on a loud speaker so that the neighborhood could hear it.

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Tony Calhoun lives a few blocks over from Jason Clark and one day when he was visiting someone on Clark’s street, he says Clark hit him with his mother’s car.

“It was a scary experience. I picked up a brick and threw it at his windshield,” he said.

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Sara Chandler was another one of the victims Clark admitted to stalking through his guilty plea. Officials say there were more than 20 police calls and reports involving Chandler alone as they gathered information to build the case against Clark.

“We're all very happy with the outcome. It was a problem that was escalating and kept escalating to where something bad was going to happen in our neighborhood to the point where we were scared to go out,” she said. “He threatened me, scared me, followed me, killed my grass, shot out my front door, shot out my laundry room door, keyed my car. Plus, there was the harassment.”

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“He threatened to kill me on more than one occasion. He would shout obscenities at me as I was walking the streets to keep an eye on the crime situation. He would call my wife derogatory names and make sexual comments about my wife,” Biller said. “It is satisfying to know that at least he is going to be locked up for a while and our neighborhood is a lot safer now.”

Neighbors said Clark shined spotlights into their homes as well as lasers and there weren’t sure if they were coming from a weapon being pointed at them. Others remember times when Clark cut his grass dressed in all black wearing a hockey mask. He also wore a ghillie suit in the neighborhood, which snipers and hunters use to conceal their position.

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Clark was also allowed to live at the College Grove Community Church on Wares Ferry Road in Montgomery for more than a year for free when a judge ordered him out of his Dalraida neighborhood. When he threatened to shoot a family walking on the church property, the church gave him an eviction notice and Clark went on a rampage, breaking lights, running up the electric and water bills, painting insults on the marquee in black paint and breaking glass and putting it in the church grass. He used 275,000 gallons of water, church officials said.

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Clark was previously convicted in city court for harassing his neighbors. That paved the way for his stalking charges to be felonies, Bailey said.

He violated a protection order on his stalking charges, which prevented him from possessing firearms and ammunition but a search of his home turned up approximately 40,000 rounds of ammo, a slew of guns, a cell phone jammer, surveillance cameras, spotlights, and an infrared illuminator which blinded neighbors’ home security systems.

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