JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2014 Edward Buckhanon was found guilty of felony battery by a Duval County jury on January 14 and now faces up to five years in Florida State Prison.<\/p>\n
State Attorney Melissa W. Nelson announced the verdict, detailing the incident that occurred on March 19, 2024, when Buckhanon attacked his neighbor with a pipe after an argument about a fence.<\/p>\n
After moving into the neighborhood, the victim experienced repeated harassment from Buckhanon, who was her next-door neighbor, prompting her to build a privacy fence between their homes. <\/p>\n
>>> STREAM ACTION NEWS JAX LIVE <<<<\/a><\/p>\n The harassment escalated on the day of the incident, when Buckhanon confronted her and her neighbors while they were fixing the fence.<\/p>\n During the confrontation, Buckhanon yelled racial slurs at the victim and her neighbors. He then retrieved a metal pipe from his home and swung it at the victim, striking her and fracturing her arm in several places.<\/p>\n She was subsequently taken to the hospital and underwent surgery for her injuries.<\/p>\n [DOWNLOAD: Free Action News Jax app for alerts as news breaks<\/a>]<\/p>\n The case was investigated by the Jacksonville Sheriff\u2019s Office, and prosecutors Michael Eckhart and Fabrizia Wade handled the case at trial.<\/p>\n The Honorable Mark Borello will determine Buckhanon\u2019s sentence at a later date.<\/p>\n Buckhanon faces a potential sentence of up to five years in prison for his actions as he awaits sentencing from Judge Borello.<\/p>\n [SIGN UP: Action News Jax Daily Headlines Newsletter<\/a>] <\/p>\n Click here<\/a> to download the free Action News Jax news and weather apps, click here<\/a> to download the Action News Jax Now app for your smart TV and click here<\/a> to stream Action News Jax live.<\/p>\n Action News Jax Top Stories<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2014 Edward Buckhanon was found guilty of felony battery by a Duval County jury on January…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":127135,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[344,347,62880,28,348,116,62881,351,118,117,62883,62882,349,350,346,345],"class_list":["post-127134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-action-news-jax","tag-cbs47","tag-edward-buckhannon","tag-florida","tag-fox30","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-battery","tag-jacksonville-fl","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news","tag-metal-pipe-battery-jax","tag-neighbors-battery","tag-northeast-florida","tag-southeast-georgia","tag-wfox","tag-wjax"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127134\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/127135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}