Dion Javon Cheeseborough, 26, was shot and killed on December 31, 2020, outside the Club at Town Center Apartments on St. Johns Bluff Road in Jacksonville, Florida. Witnesses reported an argument between Cheeseborough and another man that escalated; he was shot in the head and died. Cheeseborough had been a running back for the Oakleaf High School Knights and graduated in 2012; family and community remembered him as kind and hardworking.

Police identified 21-year-old Jerome Cedric Whitesides as the shooter; he was arrested on January 1 and charged with second-degree murder, evidence tampering, possession of a firearm by a Florida delinquent, and marijuana possession. Whitesides initially claimed self-defense, saying Cheeseborough threatened him and reached for a weapon, but surveillance video reportedly showed Cheeseborough with his hands empty and down when Whitesides pointed a gun, then stepped closer and was shot in the face while Whitesides later walked away. Cheeseborough’s ex-girlfriend, 24-year-old Jessica Nicole Rennard, was charged with evidence tampering and was seen on video walking past Cheeseborough’s body.

Does anyone have information about the events outside the Club at Town Center Apartments that night?