One person has been taken into custody after a man was killed at a Jackson tennis complex Wednesday morning.
According to Jackson Police Chief Joseph Wade, 19-year-old Daveon Lindsey, was taken into custody around 1 p.m. when he crashed the vehicle stolen from Melvin McNair, Jr. on Ridgewood Road in front of Jackson Fire Station 19. McNair was found dead in a pool of blood at Parham Bridges Park just hours earlier.
BREAKING: The stolen vehicle belonging to Melvin McNair, Jr., has been wrecked. Police have taken a suspect, said to be a 19-year-old male, into custody.
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According to officials with the Jackson Police Department, detectives learned that a maroon 2016 GMC Sierra pickup truck had been taken after McNair was killed. Officers spotted the suspect before a chase ensued. A second vehicle is also reported to have crashed during the chase.
Wade said Lindsey confessed to killing McNair. The teen shot the victim multiple times with a pink assault rifle, drug McNair out of the vehicle, and confiscated the man’s wallet before driving off in the truck. Police confiscated the murder weapon at the scene of the crash.
“This was very disturbing on so many levels because so many people in northeast Jackson use that park,” Wade said during a Wednesday afternoon press conference.
A motive for the shooting has not been released.
