Two men and a woman were stabbed to death in what the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office said is believed “to be an isolated domestic incident with no threat to the community.”
In the case Thursday, May 28, officers were called about 3:45 a.m. to a home in the 1400 block of Exodus Way off Lenox Avenue near Fouraker Road for a stabbing. The Sheriff’s Office said a man was suffering from a potential stab wound and was taken to a hospital by rescue personnel but died.
While canvassing the area, officers found the two others dead at a nearby home, the Sheriff’s Office said.
Times-Union news partner First Coast News reported that investigators said the first man, in his 40s, tried to run to a neighbor’s for help, which prompted the call to 911. The man found in the house at the crime scene was in his 30s, and the woman was in her 20s.
The Sheriff’s Office did not say if it was a murder-suicide, but if it is ruled one, it would be the fifth in a month and a half in Baker, Clay and Duval counties, according to Times-Union records. Last year there were four total, including one in Nassau County.
The homicides become the 35th this year in Jacksonville compared to 45 at this time last year, according to Times-Union records.
Murder-suicides in Jacksonville area
Following are brief summaries from authorities of the other murder-suicides in the Jacksonville area this year.
1. April 18: Ashtin Durham, 34, and girlfriend Jessica Valentin-Rivera, 36, were found dead from gunshot wounds in a Clay County apartment complex on County Road 220 after deputies received a concerning message from the man. Durham and Valentin-Rivera both had children, but none in common and they were not present at the time of the shooting. Durham was the apparent shooter. Court records didn’t show a domestic violence history, but friends indicated he was abusive to her.
2. May 3: Husband and wife Christopher and Anissa Osbourne, 51 and 56, respectively, were found shot to death at the Ocean Pond Campground in the Osceola National Forest in Olustee, Baker Couty. Deputies responded to conduct a well-being check after a report that the camp hosts were unable to be contacted throughout the weekend. It’s being investigated as a murder-suicide by the husband, but the circumstances weren’t clear. They didn’t seem to have domestic issues the family was aware of.
3. May 6: Husband and wife Lloyd Ernest Dahlen III, 52, Heather Anne Dahlen, 49, were found dead ― her neck cut and him shot ― after officers responded to a battery call at their Crossview Drive home in Jacksonville. The husband was the suspect. The wife was seeking a divorce after years of abuse and had filed an injunction for protection a day before her death, but it wasn’t served in time. They were found side by side in a pool of blood, and a witness saw him on top of her with his hands on her neck before running out to call police and then hearing a bang. A knife was beside her and a rifle beside him.
4. May 9: A husband and wife ― Gennie Mae Jackson, 64, and Elton Evin Jackson, 71 ― were found shot dead in their Sherman Hills Parkway home in Jacksonville after a neighbor was concerned because there garage door was left open all day and no one answered their front door or phones. The investigation revealed that a domestic incident escalated into a physical assault with the husband determined to be the primary aggressor in the domestic battery.
Editor’s Note: An arrest was made later that evening, so it was not a murder-suicide.
(This story has been updated with additional information.)
This article originally appeared on Florida Times-Union: ‘Domestic incident’ ends with 2 men, 1 woman stabbed to death
Reporting by Scott Butler, Jacksonville Florida Times-Union / Florida Times-Union
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