JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – A 20-year-old man was found guilty on Wednesday of several charges, including first-degree murder, in the 2023 death of three people on Jacksonville’s Northside.
A jury found Ja-Darrius Jones guilty of three charges of first-degree murder, armed robbery, and theft of a motor vehicle, after two men and a woman were found dead inside of a home on Bridges Road near Dunn Avenue in January 2023.
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According to detectives, they quickly identified Jones, who was found at a home not too far from the scene of the shooting. Jones tried to escape the police by sneaking out through a window, but after a chase, police were able to take him into custody and interview him, JSO said.
The owner of the Bridges Road home told News4JAX that the people who lived there had been there for almost 20 years.
Back in 2023, Tosha Currelley said the father of her child was one of the three found dead.
“I’m so blessed she wasn’t with him at that time. He is her everything. She looks up to him,” Currelley said.
She said she didn’t know what he was doing at that home but believed he was at the wrong place at the wrong time.
“Innocent people get killed for nothing. It has nothing to do with nothing. Now my 7-year-old is without a father and he has other kids, too,” Currelley said.
Jones will be sentenced on May 12.
