This past Christmas, one of Jonathan Mauk’s three sons gifted him a dehydrator.
A “meat and potato kind of guy,” Mauk often used it to make beef jerky, his eldest son, Matthew Mauk, told McClatchy News in a phone interview on Feb. 13.
The 59-year-old, who lived in the same San Bernardino home his mother bought in the 1970s, drove to a nearby Walmart in Highland to pick up some more curing salt to make a new batch along with his favorite soda, Pepsi, Matthew Mauk said.
As he was backing up his car in the parking lot the evening of Feb. 5, though, he hit a car behind him, Matthew Mauk said witnesses told him.
Jonathan Mauk got out of his car, his son said.
“He was apologizing, admitting fault, and the person turned around and shot him,” Matthew Mauk said.
Jonathan Mauk died on scene , San Bernardino Police Capt. Nelson Carrington told The Press-Enterprise.
The San Bernardino Police Department didn’t immediately responded to McClatchy News’ request for comment on Feb. 13.
The suspect, identified as Shawntece Marie Norton , drove away but was arrested the following day, San Bernardino police told KCAL News.