The U.S. Marshals Service has announced that an arrest has been made in the road rage killing of an Akron man earlier this month.
According to authorities, 30-year-old Dacarrei Tovon Kinard was taken into custody on Wednesday in Columbus on an arrest warrant for murder.
“Working in partnership with the U.S. Marshal Service in Columbus and the Columbus Police Department, a SWAT team in Columbus, we went along with them, the Marshal’s Service, hit the house and made the arrest on this individual,” said U.S. Marshal Pete Elliott.
Earlier this month, George Jensen, 40, was on his way home from his IT job in Wadsworth when the tragedy unfolded on the busy highway.
Body-worn camera footage shows a state trooper arriving at the scene in Norton during the evening rush on May 17. Several other drivers were trying to help Jensen, who had crashed into a concrete center barrier after he was shot.
"We believe he has been shot. We were all behind him when this happened," a male witness told the trooper.
A woman, who also witnessed part of the incident, described possible road rage between two drivers before the gunfire erupted.
"Starting from Exit 11, okay, this car and a black sports car, they were egging each other (on)," she said. Other witnesses and ODOT highway video confirmed a black Camaro was seen fleeing from the scene of the shooting. At one point, the Camaro passed a license plate reader, which captured the vehicle's registration and identified Kinard as the driver of the vehicle, according to a Norton Police affidavit obtained by News 5 Thursday.
The OSHP video shows witnesses and investigators pointing to one or two bullet holes in the car. A police report indicates multiple bullets were recovered from the car and two from the victim.
Law enforcement performed CPR for several minutes, but Jensen died at an Akron hospital.
“It’s sad. I mean, it shouldn’t happen. People shouldn’t be shot, period," Elliot said. "Our goal in our partnership is to take individuals like this off the streets permanently so they do not do this again to another innocent victim."
According to the affidavit, Norton Police obtained a search warrant for phone records and linked Kinard's phone number to a device at the scene. The phone was observed traveling from Columbus to Norton, turning around at Barber Road, then traveling back to Columbus.
An Ohio BCI lab submission of recovered evidence linked the gun used in the shooting in Norton to a separate shooting on April 13 in Columbus, the affidavit states. In that case, shots were seen coming from a black Camaro while it traveled on the roadway. Columbus Police recovered two shell casings from that incident that were confirmed to have been shot from the same weapon used in the Norton shooting.
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