{"id":148087,"date":"2026-02-08T14:22:06","date_gmt":"2026-02-08T14:22:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/148087\/"},"modified":"2026-02-08T14:22:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-08T14:22:06","slug":"vigil-held-for-man-fatally-stabbed-in-orange-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/148087\/","title":{"rendered":"Vigil held for man fatally stabbed in Orange Park"},"content":{"rendered":"

Friends and family of 38-year-old Billy Foster came together to honor his memory at the same Winn Dixie parking lot he was found with stab wounds.<\/p>\n

ORANGE PARK, Fla. \u2014 Heartbreak and remembrance filled a Winn-Dixie parking lot in Orange Park Saturday night.<\/p>\n

Friends, family and coworkers of Billy Foster gathered for a candlelight vigil in his memory after he was stabbed and killed Monday.<\/a><\/p>\n

“Mind blowing what happened to my nephew,” Foster’s uncle, Houston Foster, said.<\/p>\n

Foster is still trying to process how his nephew could disappear from his life so suddenly.<\/p>\n

“Anything you asked for, he’d do it for you,” Foster said. “Help you out, anything. If you needed something, he would give it to you. Sweet person.”<\/p>\n

The Clay County Sheriff’s Office reports the 38-year-old was stabbed at an apartment complex near Knight Boxx Road and Blanding Boulevard in Orange Park Monday, then drove himself to a nearby Winn-Dixie to look for help.<\/p>\n

Foster’s uncle was joined by a crowd at that same Winn-Dixie five days later for a vigil.<\/p>\n

It wasn’t just family, but also coworkers who made plenty of memories with Foster at local fast-food restaurants.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“He was my manager and he came up to me and welcomed me, didn’t pressure me or make me feel like I was on the spot,” Foster’s former coworker, Lindi Hart, said.<\/p>\n

Four days after Foster’s death, the Clay County Sheriff’s Office arrested Charles Jones Jr.<\/a>, saying their investigation revealed the two planned to meet up, but the reason for the meeting is still under investigation.<\/p>\n

Foster says he’ll be at court to see Jones, even though it’ll be hard to have to relive what happened to his nephew.<\/p>\n

“Just to see the individual,” Foster said. “Just to look at him and ask him, ‘Why?’ I’ll forgive you, but I’ll never forget what you’ve done to my nephew.”<\/p>\n

Before it wrapped up, folks used their candles and flowers to form a memorial for Foster in the Winn-Dixie parking lot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Friends and family of 38-year-old Billy Foster came together to honor his memory at the same Winn Dixie…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":148088,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":["post-148087","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\/148087","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=148087"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148087\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/148088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}