Suspect in fatal shooting at Dickerson Pike liquor store arrested in Texas

DALLAS (TIP): A man wanted in the killing of a woman outside a Nashville liquor store Friday, May 4, was arrested Tuesday, May 8 in Texas.

Kevin Newson, 33, was taken into custody by the U.S. Marshals fugitive task force Tuesday, May 8 afternoon.

Newson is charged with criminal homicide and aggravated assault in the fatal shooting of 32-year-old Jacqueline Johnson.

He will be returned to Nashville in coming days, Metro police reported Tuesday night.

Police said gunfire erupted around 8:45 p.m. Friday after an altercation at Firehouse Discount Liquor on Dickerson Pike near Broadmoor Drive.

Johnson was hit in the neck and transported to Skyline Medical Center, where she died after surgery, the department said early Saturday.

At the time, police said the shooting suspect, who they hadn’t immediately identified, was the passenger in a black sedan that fled eastbound on Broadmoor from Dickerson.

Authorities haven’t said what the altercation was about or given a possible motive in the fatal shooting.

 

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