ORANGE PARK, Fla. — A 34-year-old Jacksonville man is charged with murder after deputies say he shot and killed a friend Saturday in Orange Park.
John Thigpen is being held in the Clay County Jail on a charge of second-degree murder, according to an arrest report from the Clay County Sheriff’s Office.
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Around 5:17 p.m. Saturday, deputies responded to the 500 block of Constitution Drive in Orange Park, which is off Blanding Boulevard.
Thigpen made the call to 911, CCSO said.
Napoleon Brown, 35, from Jacksonville was found “lying face down on the floor,” according to Thigpen’s arrest report.
The victim “had sustained multiple gunshot wounds to the head and body,” CCSO said in a news release. He was pronounced dead by Clay County Fire Rescue.
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Thigpen was detained by deputies and taken to the Orange Park substation where a deputy “observed slight redness, bruising and swelling to the area around the defendant’s left eye” and “also had redness and several abrasions to his left hand” but had no other injuries, the arrest report said.
Thigpen “did not have the odor of alcoholic beverages coming from his breath or person, however his eyes were slightly bloodshot,” the report said.
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Thigpen had shot his friend during a dispute hours before contacting CCSO, deputies say.
“It’s unfortunate that an incident like this between two friends has cost a person their life,” Sheriff Michelle Cook said in a news release about the shooting.
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