D'Ante Jones
A video was played during a preliminary hearing on Wednesday morning showing a fatal shooting outside the Chattanooga Amazon.
The video shows 20-year-old D'Ante Jones, dressed all in black, waiting outside an employee entrance. When 19-year-old Javontae Moon comes outside at the 4:30 a.m. shift change, Jones walked over to him and shot him once in the face, leaving him slumped in a pool of blood.
General Sessions Court Judge Gary Starnes bound a first-degree murder charge against Jones to the Grand Jury.
Detective Jason Gunn testified that Jones gave a statement saying the two had argued in the parking lot at 2 a.m. that morning (Aug. 9). Jones said he took a Lyft home at 2:15 a.m. to retrieve a gun, while Moon went back to work to finish his shift.
Jones said there was a girl he liked at the plant, and he did not like the fact that Moon had been saying hi to her for the past couple of weeks.
Jones returned at 3 a.m. armed with a 45 caliber Springfield handgun and waited just outside the door for an hour and a half. After the shooting, a 45 shell casing was found by the body.
The victim was later declared brain dead.
Police were able to identify the shooter from other Amazon personnel and by a call from the Lyft driver, who said he believed he had given a ride to the shooter. Jones was arrested while leaving his home.
At the suggestion of the detective, he agreed to write a letter to the Moon family. That would be entered as state proof, it was stated.
Javontae Moon