Florida cops have charged a 32-year-old man with murder in the death of his girlfriend last October. The Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office said that Robert Hendrix was already in jail on unrelated charges when they completed their months-long investigation into the death of Kristin Carrier, 43, and charged him with her death. She was found dead …
A Florida man was arrested on Saturday after he put an 8-month-old baby into the middle of the street and then ran over the child with his car. It’s not clear if it was intentional, but the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office charged Justin Golden, 20, with vehicular homicide and aggravated manslaughter, according to the Jacksonville Sheriff’s …
A former Florida high school star athlete who stabbed his ex-girlfriend 15 times, leaving her paralized, and slashed her mother as well has been sentenced to life in prison. Spencer Pearson, 20, pleaded guilty to the June 2023 attack on Madison Schemitz and her mother, Jaclyn Roge, in July, the Florida Times Union reported. Pearson’s …
A Florida mother discovered an 18-year-old man having an “inappropriate text relationship’ with her 13-year-old daughter and set up a meeting with him herself, which led to the man being shot by police. Cerry Banks was hospitalized in stable condition and charged with two counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, two counts of …
A ma accused of fatally shooting an off-duty Florida corrections officer last week was caught in North Carolina. Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office Officer Brad McNew was shot dead Saturday when he intervened in suspect Demaurea Grant’s assault of a woman, Queen City News reported. Deputies said the incident began just before 1:30 a.m. when a black …
A Florida teen has been arrested conspiring to kill his father in 2022 and then killing the accomplice who helped him murder the father. Shane Payne Sr. was found shot to death inside his home in August 2022, the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office said. Three days later, Jacksonville deputies found 16-year-old Timothy Dixon suffering from a …
Florida police are investigating after a homeowner found “toes sticking out of the ground” while doing yard work. Workers told WJXT the home is a rental property and they were on the scene doing renovations with the owner when the discovery was made. The Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office was called to the scene Wednesday night and …
A Florida funeral home director has been arrested and charged with grand theft and improper handling of human remains after he allegedly abandoned three bodies in his Jacksonville funeral home and handed out cremains that family members said looked like “chalk or ground kitty litter.” Elliott Maurice Graham, 59, was arrested on Friday in Orlando …
A toddler and two adults were shot dead Saturday night in an apparent dispute over the sale of a dog. Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office Assistant Chief J.D. Stronko said a group of five people, including a 3-year-old child, travelled to an apartment complex on the south side of the city at about 10 p.m. “to conduct …
Jacksonville authorities identified 21-year-old Ryan Palmeter as the man who gun downed three Black people at a Dollar General store on Saturday after he was turned away from the historically Black Edward Waters University (EWU) nearby. Jacksonville Sheriff T.K. Waters identified the victims of the shooting at 52-year-old Angela Carr, 19-year-old Anolt Joseph “AJ” Laguerre …
A gunman wearing a mask and a tactical vest killed three people at a Florida Dollar General store on Saturday in the Jacksonville sheriff said was a “racially motivated” shooting. Two men and a woman were killed, police said, all of them Black. Sheriff T.K. Waters said the shooter, a white man in his 20s …
A popular Jacksonville bartender was one of two women shot dead early Wednesday morning near train tracks in San Marco, Florida. The management of Dos Gatos in downtown Jacksonville said 28-year-old Paige Pringle had dropped off gifts for her manager and another employee and was stopped for the train. Her SUV coasted into the train …
