The father of murder victim Kathleen Jackson said Saturday "the system is messed up," reflecting on the decision to drop charges a second time against the suspect held in his daughter's death.

The 20-year-old Jackson was shot in the head April 27th at 63rd and Taylor Circle after an argument with neighbors at 3 a.m. over loud music and died three days later.

Accounts from six witnesses led police to a suspect, Derrick West-Jones. A judge initially dismissed the murder charge in June saying the state did not establish probable cause.

Prosecutors re-filed the charge hours later, believing they had that evidence after West-Jones' girlfriend and her sister told police he did it, but they recanted that story in court on Friday.

With no witnesses able or willing to positively identify the shooter, a judge ruled Friday there was not enough evidence to support the charge because nobody could positively identify West-Jones as the shooter. He was then released from jail.

"I don't know who did it because I wasn't there, but there was people there that know who did it, but nobody want to come front, I can't understand that,” said LaMark Dale, Jackson's father.

"I'll go before she'll go. I thought they'd be burying me." No father expects to lose a child, especially not this way. "Over music? Three in the morning? Come on."

West-Jones had walked away from murder charges before, in 2005 because of a hung jury. "Y'all got him on two murder charges and he got off scot-free on two murder charges and walk away smiling."

Just as frustrating, Dale says, is the fact that nobody let him know West-Jones would face a judge on Friday. By the time he found out, he was late and locked out of the proceedings. "The system is messed up. I'm mad at them more than anything because they didn't even call me."

He's left with a lot of questions and absolutely no closure, knowing that unless somebody positively identifies his daughter's killer, that person will never pay the price.

"I made that baby. She's mine and I buried her and she's resting, but I really want to see justice done. Something else gotta happen."

Jackson's roommate, Christina Owens, told Channel 6 News in April that when confronted about playing the music, "The gentleman immediately caught an attitude. We went back downstairs to our apartment. He told us he would have some girls for us and he did. He brought them. And he knocked on our door and it was a big fight. And the next thing I know my friend is laying at my feet with a hole in her head."

Brittani Elmore, a friend of the victim, said, "They went back upstairs like nothing happened. They have no remorse at all, none at all."

Here is what prosecutors tell Channel 6 News: