21-Year-Old Arrested In Fatal Road Rage Shooting

EAST NASHVILLE, TN — A 21-year-old admitted to a fatal road rage shooting Friday, Metro Police said.

Frederick Owens Jr. is charged with criminal homicide and is being held on a $1 million bond following the shooting death of Deangelo Foxx, 32, Friday on Shelby Avenue near Interstate Drive.

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Foxx, 32, was in the front passenger seat of his girlfriend's Toyota Camry. As the woman, 20-year-old Kassandra Jones, tried to merge into traffic on Shelby Avenue, the couple and a pair in a white Mercedes began to argue, a witness told police.

The passenger in the Mercedes, believed to be Owens, then shot into the Camry, striking Foxx. Jones pulled over at Second Avenue and Russell Street and made contact with police. Foxx was taken to Vanderbilt University Medical Center and pronounced dead.

Owens fled eastbound on Shelby, abandoning the Mercedes at the James Cayce homes.

Surveillance video showed Owens leaving the Mercedes and getting into a gray Ford Fusion with a red bumper.

Police stopped the Ford around 6:30 p.m. on Firth Drive and Owens was arrested, according to MNPD.

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