JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – According to an arrest report for a man accused in a fatal Christmas Day shooting on the Westside last year, the fatal encounter was sparked by a dispute over the purchase of a car.
According to the Sheriff’s Office, police responded to the intersection of Normandy Boulevard and Chaffee Road, where they found a man who had been shot in a car and died at the scene.
Family members later identified the man as 21-year-old Baron Dixon, who left behind a fiancee and young son.
Talon Kenneth McClary, 21, was identified as a suspect and arrested on Feb. 17 on a charge of murder after turning himself in to homicide detectives at JSO.
McClary’s arrest report, obtained Wednesday by News4JAX, states his arrest came as a result of witness statements, surveillance video and ballistics evidence.
After Dixon was found shot to death in a BMW on Normandy Boulevard, a witness who saw the shooting spoke to JSO, saying a man got out of a Lexus at a stoplight at Normandy Boulevard and Chafee Road and went to the BMW.
The witness heard three shots, and then the shooter got back into the Lexus and drove off.
Police arrived at McClary’s home and took him downtown for questioning. McClary told detectives that Dixon came to McClary’s house to look at a BMW that McClary wanted to sell. McClary said Dixon took the keys and drove off, following him in his Lexus, but did not say anything else.
Dixon’s family had previously said he was killed after McClary sold the car to Dixon.
JSO impounded both cars. Inside the Lexus they found a black AR-style handgun. A spent shell casing was found in another car owned by McClary, which produced a NIBIN (ballistic) match.
JSO also interviewed another witness who was at her home when McClary called her mother, and heard her mother say “why would you do stupid shit like that?”
McClary showed up a short time later, saying it had been stolen.
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