JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – A 21-year-old man is in jail, charged with killing two men two weeks apart and a third shooting during an armed robbery. All three shootings happened earlier this year.
The Jacksonville Sheriff's Office has named Jamin Lamar Tolliver as a suspect in the Jan. 25 shooting death of Philip Gardner. He is also charged with murder in the death of Thomas "T.J." Daniels, who was found dead on Feb. 6.
Tolliver is also charged with attempted murder and armed robbery in a Feb. 1 shooting in which a man was shot in the neck but survived.
"No one called 911 to report the shooting. So without the Shot Spotter technology, this victim would’ve most likely died from his injuries at the scene," Sheriff Mike Williams said.
Gardner, 44, was found dead of gunshot wounds on Barnett Street near James Small Park by officers responding to gunfire picked up by the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office Shot Spotter system.
Thirteen days later, less than 1 mile away, Daniels, 42, was found dead of gunshot wounds by a co-worker inside his West 23rd Street home. News4Jax was told by Daniels' sister, Karen Smith, that the victim was Tolliver's stepfather. She immediately suspected he was responsible for his death.
Smith said Tolliver wanted to take possession of his stepdad's house and he feigned grief while serving as a pallbearer at Daniels' funeral.
"It’s such a closure to the family that an arrest has been made," Smith said.
"Every gun used in a crime has a story and a suspect and a victim," Williams said in a news conference Wednesday afternoon on how new technology helped them connect each shooting to Tolliver's gun.
Police obtained a warrant for Tolliver, who was arrested March 6. He is being held on $1.7 million bond and is expected to be arraigned Thursday on all three charges.
According to the arrest report, two of the shootings were detected by the Shot Spotter system and the armed robbery was caught on one of the JSO's Real-Time Crime cameras (pictured, right). All three shootings were connected by another piece of new technology used by city: the National Integrated Ballistic Information Network.
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The shell casings from each scene were matched to the same gun within 24 hours. Once the same detectives began investigating all three cases, they quickly identified Tolliver as a person of their suspect.
The Sheriff's Office and the State Attorney's Office held a news conference Wednesday afternoon to detail how their new crime-fighting technology accelerated the solving of these cases.
"This is a remarkable day because the synergy of all of these technologies working is exactly what we envisioned," State Attorney Melissa Nelson said. "A year ago, these would have been three separate cases worked by three separate teams for months."
Williams said Tolliver legally purchased the gun Jan. 21, days before the crime spree began.