Community reacts after minor charged with murder in shooting death of David Fletcher Jones

LEXINGTON, Ky. (WTVQ)-Many parents are shaking their heads after hearing that a teenager was shot and killed Friday night at a home nearby Tates Creek High School.

Tates Creek Middle School parent Quinta Dyer says, “I just think it’s terrible. I mean, something every week, every day out here.”

Tates Creek Middle School parent Antoinette Warren says, “It’s just sad what’s going on in the community. I mean I hear things going on all the time on Centre Parkway and especially up that way it’s a lot of in and out transactions/”

Police say 17-year-old David Fletcher Jones died after being shot in the head while hanging out with three to four friends in the basement of a home on Honey Jay Court, just up the way from Tates Creek Schools. Shortly after officers briefly secured the high school as a precaution.

The shooting raises alarm bells for some parents after three students in the past two weeks were caught in three separate incidents carrying guns with them on campus.

Dyer says, “It’s pretty scary knowing that she’s at school and that somebody could be shooting. But I don’t send her to school everyday with you know, the fear of her dying.”

Warren says, “I’m trying to move in the next three months because there’s so much going on and just try to find somewhere that’s quieter. Now I just feel so bad because I thought Tates Creek was such a good school for my kids, but evidently it’s not…I mean they’re bringing guns in the school.”

Warren says she feels for the victim’s family. Her brother Antonio Franklin Jr. was shot and killed two years ago at Duncan Park. She says at this point moving is what’s best for her kids.

“I have two sons and my boys who look up to him and I don’t want them to turn out…I don’t want them to be in the crossfire. Especially at school we’re they’re trying to go somewhere and learn.””

There isn’t much other information on the case yet because it involves minors. Important to note, Fayette County Schools says that Fletcher Jones was not enrolled as a student with the district. Tomorrow students at Dunbar High School plan to host an event to promote healing after the death of Fletcher Jones, Trinity Gay, and after the recent gun problems at Tates Creek. “We are the Change Rally” will be at 4pm in the auditorium.