JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2014 According to the Jacksonville Sheriff\u2019s Office, two men are facing murder charges following the shooting of a 55-year-old man on Christmas Eve in 2025. Amen Mathis and Gregory Woods were arrested in connection to the killing of Kenneth Lockhart.<\/p>\n
Action News Jax previously reported<\/a> that JSO officers responded to reports of gunfire on the 3800 block of St. Augustine Road. <\/p>\n Upon arrival, officers found Lockhart on the side of a business with multiple gunshot wounds. He died from his injuries before he could receive medical attention.<\/p>\n The Jacksonville Sheriff\u2019s Office Homicide Unit detectives used surveillance footage from the area to identify the suspects. <\/p>\n >>> STREAM ACTION NEWS JAX LIVE <<<<\/a><\/p>\n The video showed 55-year-old Lockhart in an argument with two men. According to investigators, the footage then showed the two men shooting Lockhart multiple times before they fled the scene on foot.<\/p>\n Detectives quickly identified 38-year-old Mathis as one of the men in the surveillance video. He was arrested early Christmas morning, December 25, 2025, just hours after the shooting occurred.<\/p>\n The investigation then continued for several weeks as authorities worked to locate the second suspect. <\/p>\n On January 28, 2026, the U.S. Marshals Task Force located 60-year-old Woods and took him into custody.<\/p>\n Both Mathis and Woods are now facing murder charges in connection with the shooting. They are currently being held at the Duval County Jail.<\/p>\n [DOWNLOAD: Free Action News Jax app for alerts as news breaks<\/a>]<\/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 According to the Jacksonville Sheriff\u2019s Office, two men are facing murder charges following the shooting…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":137050,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[344,66977,347,66975,28,348,66976,116,351,118,117,66978,349,350,346,345],"class_list":["post-137049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-action-news-jax","tag-amen-mathis","tag-cbs47","tag-christmas-eve-shooting-jax","tag-florida","tag-fox30","tag-gregory-woods","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-fl","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news","tag-kenneth-lockhart","tag-northeast-florida","tag-southeast-georgia","tag-wfox","tag-wjax"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137049","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=137049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137049\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/137050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}