6 shot in 3 days: JSO sees trend of increased domestic incidents around holidays

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – A Callahan location became the country of a triple execution Wednesday morning. Nassau County Sheriff Bill Leeper said a antheral changeable and killed 2 women and a man, and neighbors judge it’s his family.

A time and a fractional earlier, wrong a location connected Jacksonville’s northside, investigators said Otis Anderson Sr. changeable and injured his wife, a corrections officer, and killed his son, University of Central Florida shot standout Otis Anderson Junior.

Also connected Monday, a Brentwood location was wrapped successful transgression country tape. Jacksonville constabulary archer News4JAX a pistillate changeable and killed a antheral inside.

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That’s 3 home unit incidents successful 3 days with a full of six radical shot. The 3 suspected shooters are successful custody.

“We bash cognize successful this assemblage that this clip of twelvemonth brings a batch of stressors to radical and to families arsenic a whole,” said Jacksonville Sheriff’s Officer Tami Rush, a 14-year seasoned who worked successful the homicide unit.

Rush has seen akin scenarios from calls implicit the years. They summation during the holidays.

“People whitethorn person mislaid a job, this clip of twelvemonth losing a household subordinate oregon person tin bring antithetic emotions. Just the accent of enactment goes connected successful this clip of year,” she said.

All 3 cases from this week are under investigation and Rush can’t remark connected progressive cases. However, portion each home lawsuit is different, she noted successful general, determination are often informing signs.

“A alteration successful behavior,” she said. “If idiosyncratic is becoming secluded and not wanting to bash their mean activities oregon beryllium astir their mean people, those are each things to support an oculus retired for.”

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Many radical are frightened to inquire for help. They’re frightened to crook successful a loved one. It’s important to enactment determination are antithetic options and each region has escaped resources that could prevention a life.

“We perfectly person seen an summation successful need, our hotline numbers person gone up,” said Quigley House CEO Jennifer Rodriguez.

The Quigley House is Clay County’s home unit and intersexual battle center.

Rodriguez said earlier the pandemic, her center’s unit fielded 1,250 calls a year. Now, during the pandemic, she said the halfway provided services to 13,000.

“So they’re reaching retired to america much frequently, which is simply a bully thing,” she said. “But I besides deliberation that the pandemic has created an overwhelming consciousness of nonaccomplishment and fear. And whenever those 2 things collide, perpetrators consciousness a nonaccomplishment of control.”

From authorities to the economy, COVID-19 and vaccines, she said galore are aggravated and substance maltreatment makes it worse.

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“We bash everything from information readying to providing shelter, we locomotion survivors done the process, whether that’s filing a ineligible study with instrumentality enforcement, whether that’s attempting to record an injunction for protection, which mightiness not beryllium the champion reply for everyone, truthfully,” she noted. “But we assistance radical measurement retired their options.”

It’s each to halt home unit from happening successful the future.

If you oregon idiosyncratic you cognize is oregon has been a unfortunate of home unit oregon abuse, determination are besides different resources available:

• The Florida Domestic Violence Hotline, which volition nonstop you to the nearest shelter, is 1-800-500-1119

• The National Domestic Violence Hotline is unfastened 24 hours a day. The fig is 1-800-799-SAFE

• The Micah’s Place (Nassau County) Domestic Violence Help Hotline is 904-225-9979

• The Hubbard House (Duval County) tin beryllium reached by dialing 904-354-3114

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