‘They just shot this boy up’: Mother watches son murdered during FaceTime call, police say

Jonathon Xavier Jones, bottom inset, is accused in the fatal shooting of Jadun M. Byrd, top inset. (Victim and crime scene screenshots from KSDK/YouTube; Mug shot from St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department)

Jonathon Xavier Jones, bottom inset, is accused in the fatal shooting of Jadun M. Byrd, top inset. (Victim and crime scene screenshots from KSDK/YouTube; Mug shot from St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department)

A teen who escaped a juvenile detention facility in Missouri where he was facing a homicide charge faces murder and other charges in a separate shooting of a man killed while FaceTiming with his mother.

Jonathon Xavier Jones, 19, faces charges of murder, armed criminal action and unlawful use of a weapon in the killing of Jadun M. Byrd, 19. Jones, who was 17 at the time of the deadly shooting, has been certified to stand trial as an adult, police said. Jones was already in custody on unrelated charges and remains in custody, authorities said.

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