{"id":137171,"date":"2026-01-30T03:43:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T03:43:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/137171\/"},"modified":"2026-01-30T03:43:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T03:43:07","slug":"jacksonville-police-arrest-two-men-accused-in-christmas-eve-killing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/137171\/","title":{"rendered":"Jacksonville police arrest two men accused in Christmas Eve killing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Jacksonville Sheriff&#8217;s Office has announced the arrest of 38-year-old Amen Mathis and 60-year-old Gregory Woods in connection with Kenneth Lockhart&#8217;s murder.<\/p>\n<p>JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2014 The Jacksonville Sheriff&#8217;s Office has arrested two men in connection with the Christmas Eve <a href=\"https:\/\/www.firstcoastnews.com\/article\/news\/local\/jso-investigation-underway-after-fatal-shooting-on-citys-southside\/77-f068c5f6-5233-4c0e-a250-b3333b951796\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">killing of 55-year-old Kenneth Lockhart.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>That night, JSO says officers responded to a shooting on St. Augustine Road, near Emerson Street. When they arrived, they found Lockhart with multiple gunshot wounds. He passed away before he could receive medical attention.<\/p>\n<p>Homicide detectives began investigating, and nearby surveillance footage showed Lockhart in an argument with two men. Police say the footage shows two men shooting Lockhart before running away.<\/p>\n<p>One of the men was identified as 38-year-old Amen Mathis, who was arrested early Christmas morning.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The investigation continued, and 60-year-old Gregory Woods was identified as the second suspect. The U.S. Marshals Task Force arrested Woods on Jan. 28.<\/p>\n<p>Woods and Mathis are being held at the Duval County jail and are charged with 2nd-degree murder. They are each also charged with possessing guns as convicted felons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Jacksonville Sheriff&#8217;s Office has announced the arrest of 38-year-old Amen Mathis and 60-year-old Gregory Woods in connection&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":137172,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":["post-137171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137171","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=137171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137171\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/137172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}