Authorities identify Lucerne man killed Tuesday in vehicular homicide case
- Elizabeth Larson
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LUCERNE, Calif. – Authorities have identified the Lucerne man who died early Tuesday after another man intentionally hit him with a vehicle.
Joseph Symond Jackson, 40, was struck and fatally injured by a van driven by 62-year-old Thomas Andrew Magee of Clearlake at around 1:30 a.m. Tuesday, as Lake County News has reported.
The Lake County Sheriff’s Office said Jackson was in the area of Highway 20 and Seventh Avenue in Lucerne when Magee hit him with his van.
Magee fled the scene but was stopped and taken into custody by a California Highway Patrol officer on Highway 53 near Highway 20 in Clearlake Oaks about 20 minutes after the incident occurred, the sheriff’s office said.
Jackson was to have been flown to an out-of-county trauma center but was taken to Sutter Lakeside Hospital where he died of his injuries early Tuesday morning, authorities said.
Witnesses told investigators that Magee and Jackson had a dispute over property, according to Lt. Corey Paulich of the Lake County Sheriff’s Office.
On Tuesday, friends of Jackson’s set up a small shrine of candles and flowers on the sidewalk in front of the Lake County Sheriff’s Office substation at Highway 20 and Seventh Avenue, near where Jackson was hit.
Paulich told Lake County News that, based on the investigation so far, the two men had been acquaintances for a short time.
The sheriff’s office has had several contacts with Jackson over the past 20 years, “some as victim and some as suspect,” Paulich said.
He said sheriff’s office records didn’t show contacts with Magee. However, “Magee does have extensive criminal history for drug, weapons and theft convictions,” mostly in the in the Bay Area, Paulich said.
Magee is charged with murder and is being held in the Lake County Jail on $1 million bail. He is due to appear for arraignment in Lake County Superior Court on Thursday, according to booking records.
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