ROCKLEDGE, Fla. – An 18-year-old man has been arrested in the fatal shooting of a 16-year-old about two weeks ago in Rockledge.

Tauje Malik Jackson was booked Thursday morning, arrested via warrant to face a charge of manslaughter, records show.

According to the affidavit for Jackson’s arrest warrant, Rockledge police were called to a home on Ferndale Avenue before 6 a.m. on Nov. 8 after a 911 caller told dispatchers that someone got shot. When the dispatcher asked the caller to clarify whether the victim shot themself, the caller replied, “someone else shot him but it was an accident,” the affidavit states.

Police rushed to the home and found the victim lying unresponsive on his back on the corner of a couch with a gunshot wound to the chest, according to the affidavit. The victim w

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