A workplace dispute at an Amazon fulfillment center in Chattanooga ended with deadly gunfire in the early morning of August 9, 2023. Javontae Aveion Moon, a 19-year-old Black man who worked as a packer and sorter, was shot once in the head at close range in the facility’s parking lot on Discovery Drive around 4:30 a.m. He was taken to a local hospital in critical condition and died on August 14, 2023.

Police identified 20-year-old co-worker D’ante Jones as the primary suspect. Investigators say the two had been arguing for about two weeks over a female co-worker. On the morning of the shooting Jones allegedly clocked out, took a ride-share home to get a .45 caliber handgun, returned, waited about an hour and a half, then approached Moon and shot him. Surveillance footage purportedly captured the shooting. Jones was arrested, initially charged with attempted first-degree murder and firearm possession; after Moon’s death the charge was upgraded to first-degree murder. At a preliminary hearing Jones confessed and cited the dispute as his motive. He is held in the Hamilton County Jail on a $1,000,000 bond awaiting trial.

Does anyone have further information about Moon’s life, routines at that facility, or the weeks of conflict leading up to the shooting?