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 …
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A second-grader at a Florida Christian academy was “administratively withdrawn” from the school after her parents questioned a homework assignment that requested “a picture of you doing reading homework in the bathtub.”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 …
Caroline Lee was accused of striking a student who made a death threat toward her. Ten months later, the state’s attorney dropped the charges.
Florida authorities have arrested a man for the murder of a woman found dead earlier this month in a Jacksonville lake. Family members identified the victim as Beverly Febres, the 23-year-old mother of two toddler sons, WJXT reports. Her body was found floating on the edge of Marco Lake in the San Marco neighborhood early …
A man killed a Jacksonville, Florida, resident and shot at another Thursday morning in what investigators say was a “random” shooting. The Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office said the man, who has not yet been positively identified, was subdued by a K-9 that he fought with before officers were able to handcuff him. “Striking him, potentially trying …
A Florida carpet installer found a dead man Friday inside morning what was supposed to be a vacant apartment in Jacksonville. Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office Sgt. Steve Rudlaff told WJXT that deputies were called to the apartment complex at about 10 a.m. after the installer reported finding the body of a man who had been shot. …
A Florida rental property owner cleaning up the home for new renters found a body last week buried in the back yard, and investigators have now identified the deceased as a woman who was last seen in February. Investigators have not determined how 40-year-old LaDonna Williams died, but the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office has classified her …
A 5-year-old Florida girl was killed Thursday night when a kidnapping suspect, pursued by police, drove off an interstate ramp into a retention pond. Jacksonville Sheriff’s Officer Christian Hancock said officers ran into the water and apprehended the driver, but they were unable to locate the little girl, WJXT reported. Fire crews and a dive …
Two police departments have launched internal investigations after they were tipped early this week about a heavily armed pregnant woman on her way from Florida to New Jersey — a trip that ended with her 21-year-old sister shot to death. Tony Miranda contacted Jacksonville, Florida, police on Monday, telling them that his fiancee had stolen …
