UPDATE (5:40 p.m.): Mobile Police Chief Paul Prine classified the fatal shooting at a local McDonald’s as domestic violence.
Prine said an argument between two brothers, Jakori Jones, 21, and Marquis Roper, 33, started in a vehicle. The argument continued outside, and at some point during the argument, Jones allegedly fired multiple shots into Roper’s chest.
Prine said Jones allegedly abandoned Roper at the McDonald’s on Schillinger Road where police found him with life-threatening injuries. Roper later died of his injuries, according to Prine, at a Mobile hospital.
“There is nothing more irrevocable than pointing a weapon or pulling a trigger,” Prine said.
Since Jan. 1, Prine said Mobile saw 50 felony assaults, 44% of which were a result of domestic violence.
“I’m not really sure what the police department can do to resolve that trend other than what we’re doing today is trying to put out simply a public awareness that we have to do better,” Prine said. “And that is something that the police department is simply not going to be able to fix.”