Tuscaloosa Man Charged With Capital Murder After Shooting Victim Dies

TUSCALOOSA, AL — A man is dead and a suspect charged with capital murder following a fatal shooting at a Tuscaloosa gas station Wednesday morning.

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Captain Jack Kennedy, commander of the multi-agency Tuscaloosa Violent Crimes Unit, told local media that John Weston Horton, 50, was seated in the passenger seat of a vehicle in the parking lot of the Chevron at 3800 Joe Mallisham Parkway just before 7:30 a.m. Wednesday when someone walked up to the passenger window and shot him.

The shooting was captured on video, he said, and witnessed by numerous people.

Kennedy then said Horton was rushed to surgery at DCH Regional Medical Center, but died of his injuries a short time after the shooting.

Cornelius Rashad Jones, 31, turned himself in to investigators at the Tuscaloosa County Jail, who learned that Horton had been in a relationship with a woman who was an ex-girlfriend of Jones.

"The woman was driving the car the victim was a passenger in," he said. "She was not injured. Anger over the new relationship is believed to be the motive behind the murder."

Jones has been charged with capital murder and shooting into an occupied vehicle.

He has been denied bond and remains in jail.

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