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 …
A Florida woman has been charged with the murder of her girlfriend, whose badly decomposed remains were found on a Jacksonville front porch a week after she was last seen. The Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office said that Heather Sheppard, 43, was last seen on June 29, and her remains, “in an advanced stage of decomposition,” were …
Florida authorities issued an Amber Alert Monday for a 12-year-old girl they say was kidnapped just before 3 a.m. from Jacksonville’s Southside. The Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office said Fernanda Arias was taken in a dark-colored, two-door Honda. Deputies later identified the driver as Jorge Reyes, WJXT reported. Arias is described as 4 feet 11 inches tall …
A Florida teen accused of stabbing a classmate more than a hundred times on Mother’s Day 2021 pleaded guilty Monday morning to first degree murder. Jury selection in the trial of Aiden Fucci, 16, was set to begin Monday morning, but his decision to change his plea halted the proceeding, WJXT reports. Fucci was charged …
Kanye West’s blatant antisemitism sprouted in Florida over the weekend as the rapper now known as Ye kept up with his message of hate. The message “Kanye is right about the Jews” appeared in several spots in Jacksonville, prompting concern from Jewish community leaders who noted it’s been but four years since Robert Gregory Bowers …
A Florida woman has been arrested and charged with the death of her estranged husband in Jacksonville. Kimberly Heath, 45, was ordered held without bond in court on Saturday after investigators found Nathaniel Heath, 40, dead at a house in the Holly Oaks area, WJXT reported. Sgt. Robby Henson with the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office said …
A second-grader at a Florida Christian academy was “administratively withdrawn” from the school after her parents questioned a homework assignment that requested “a picture of you doing reading homework in the bathtub.” The student’s mother, Misty Dunham, promptly sent a message to her daughter’s teacher at Victory Christian Academy in Jacksonville. “I emailed the teacher …
