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No suspects in Fairview Street shooting

ACC Police say they have no motive or suspects in the killing of a man found dead in his car Sunday afternoon in East Athens.

Gerald Dexter Jones, 52, of Fowler Drive, was found deceased at about 3:30 p.m. in the driver’s seat of his white 2014 Dodge Challenger. Jones died of a single gunshot wound. His car was parked on the 100 block of Fairview Street near North Peter Street.

Police have not yet located any witnesses who may have seen a suspect leaving the area. Anyone with information is asked to contact Det. David Harrison at David.harrison@accgov.com.

Jeff has delivered morning news at WUGA Radio for more than a decade. He was among a team at CNN that won a George Foster Peabody Award in 1991 for an educational product based on the fall of the Soviet Union. He also won an Edward R. Murrow Award from Radio Television Digital News Association in 2007 for producing a series for WSB Radio on financial scams. Jeff is a graduate of the Babcock Graduate School of Management at Wake Forest University (MBA) and holds a BS in Business Administration from Campbell University, both in North Carolina.