Victim identified in fatal shooting at M&S Drive-Thru
The Richland County Coroner's Office has identified the 26-year-old male who died after a shooting late Thursday night inside the M&S Drive-Thru as Devonte Jacocks of Mansfield.
The deceased was a 2015 graduate of Mansfield Senior High School.
A man who called 911 after 11 p.m. said he needed to "report a murder," according to a recording from the City of Mansfield Communications Center.
"Who was hurt?" said the dispatcher.
"A customer," the caller said. "Somebody just came in and shot him."
"A customer was shot? Is he breathing at all?" the dispatcher said.
"No he's dead," the caller said.
"Where was he shot?" the dispatcher asked.
"In the head," the caller said, adding the victim has a pulse.
The caller said a male suspect wearing all black and a mask entered the business, at 753 Springmill St., and shot three people. He said he did not know if the suspect left in a vehicle but said everything was recorded on video, according to the 911 call, obtained by the News Journal through a public records request.
Upon officers’ arrival, Jacocks was found and transported to OhioHealth Mansfield Hospital, where he was pronounced dead, according to police and the Richland County Coroner's Office.
Another 26-year-old male who had been shot in the calf and also was transported to OhioHealth Mansfield, according to Mansfield police Chief Keith Porch.
While officers were investigating the shooting, a 24-year-old female victim who had been shot in the foot arrived at the hospital. Police determined that the woman had been at the M&S Drive-Thru when the two males were shot but she fled before officers arrived, Porch said in a news release issued Friday morning.
Major Crimes detectives are working to determine who is responsible for the shootings. As of 3:40 p.m. Friday, a shooter was not in custody, Porch said.
The Richland County Coroner’s Office is sending Jacocks' body to the Montgomery County Medical Examiner's Office for an autopsy. Once additional details are known they will be released at that time, police said.
Police did not identify the two other shooting victims.
Victim's grandfather was shot, killed at drive-thru in March 1999
Jacocks' grandfather, Clarence Jacocks Jr., 49, was shot and killed at Papa Johnny's Drive-Thru on March 12, 1999 where he was working on the city's north end.
Clarence Jacocks Jr. was a former history teacher in the Mansfield City School System and a former employee of Copperweld in Shelby. He was a 1967 graduate of Mansfield Senior High School and Wilberforce University where he was a member of the Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity.
All three men involved in the 1999 shooting and robbery received life in prison.
Retired Mansfield police Detective Frank Parrella solved the case, according to News Journal archives.
Parrella said Lawrence Holder, the man ultimately convicted of firing the shot that killed Clarence Jacocks on March 12 at the Bowman Street business, was in Fulton County Jail in Georgia under an assumed name. A routine fingerprint check by the FBI revealed that Charles Hatchett actually was Lawrence Holder. Renardo Minor and Ronald Leaks were sentenced to 33 years to life in prison for aiding and abetting aggravated robbery and aggravated murder.
A break happened in the case when a fingerprint was gotten off a cash register key. Police located the rental business in Atlanta where the suspected had rented a car.
Anyone with information about the Thursday night shootings is encouraged to call Major Crimes Detective Ronee Swisher at 419-755-9432.
The homicide is the second in Richland County this year.
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Monteles Holland, 31, of Ontario, was arrested in Columbus for the Jan. 3 aggravated murder of Nayshawn Lovett, 16, of Mansfield, at the Quality Inn, 500 N. Trimble Road.
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This article originally appeared on Mansfield News Journal: Three people shot, one dies, at M&S Drive-Thru on Springmill Steeet
