Girlfriend: Victim ‘at wrong place, wrong time’

LYNN – The pregnant girlfriend of the city’s fifth murder victim of 2008 said Thursday she doesn’t believe her boyfriend was asking for trouble before being shot because he was looking forward to being a dad.”His son is due in five weeks,” Alicia Corbett, 20, of Lynn said. “The only thing he wanted was a good place for me and him and his son. That’s all he talked about everyday.”Jonathan “Jondo” Harris, 24, of Lynn was shot in the head and killed in a gunfight on Quincy Terrace at about 7:30 p.m. Wednesday after a drug deal went bad, police said.Despite numerous police reports saying that Harris fired the first shot and was found lying on a Rogers Avenue sidewalk with a handgun by his side, Corbett repeatedly said in an interview that Harris “was at the wrong place, at the wrong time.”When asked if she knew of the events leading up to Harris’ death, Corbett replied: “I don’t know what’s the truth, I don’t know what’s not the truth. He wasn’t going out looking for problems,” she said. “It’s Lynn. There are stories everywhere.”One police report says Harris’ sister was ripped off of $70 when she sold marijuana to Walter Clare, 18, earlier in the night. Clare allegedly ran away with four bags of pot without paying.Harris’ sister allegedly called Harris for assistance in getting her money back. Harris allegedly asked his sister if she wanted him to get the “hammer,” a street name for a gun, to which his sister replied, “yes.””I know he wasn’t there to start problems. I know it was just that crack head family,” Corbett said. “Jondo has never been in a gang in his life, ever, and I know that for a fact.”Witnesses told police Harris fired the first shot but Clare fired several shots in return. Harris, his sister and others ran toward Rogers Avenue when the sister noticed Harris had collapsed on the sidewalk.Corbett, who lived with Harris, said nothing seemed out of the ordinary the last time she saw her boyfriend alive.”I saw him right before it happened. It was an ordinary, ‘What’s for dinner?’ type of day,” she said.The Item profiled Harris in a story about the Peabody Gun Court when it first began operating in 2006. Harris was one of the first three defendants to be heard in the court, which has a purpose of fast-tracking firearms-related cases that would have otherwise languished in Lynn District Court.The Feb. 4, 2006 article said Harris was charged with seven crimes after allegedly hitting Corbett and threatening her with a .380-caliber handgun.A grieving Corbett is still coming to terms with the fact that her son will never know his father.”I just wish he could be there for his son,” she said through tears. “He didn’t deserve that. Nobody deserves to die, regardless of what you did.”Corbett said she would remember Harris as someone who loved football, cars, videogames and his friends.”The Cowboys were his favorite team,” she said. “He loved to play video games with his friends and play basketball. It’s not like he was just a scumbag out on the streets? Jondo was just a good, straight-up guy.”