MESA, Ariz. — A man has pleaded guilty to killing the store manager of a CVS Pharmacy last year in Mesa.
Jared Sevey, 39, pleaded guilty last week to second-degree murder and first-degree burglary for a shooting reported in September 2023 at a CVS store near Brown Road and Mesa Drive.
The shooting resulted in the death of Michael Jacobs, a long-time CVS employee.
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Public records show Sevey had gotten into an altercation with Jacobs about shoplifting. The defendant then went home to retrieve a firearm and returned to the CVS store. Sevey asked to speak to the manager and when Jacobs came up to the front of the store, the defendant fired multiple shots, records show.
When he was apprehended by police, Sevey reportedly told officers he was "guilty."
Jacobs' family told 12News that he was a dedicated family man and CVS employee, who often went out of his way to help customers.
“He was just a perfect person,” the victim's son told 12News last year. “He’d teach us about sacrifice, living, and to be authentically good as a person.”
Sevey will be sentenced in court on July 26.
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