{"id":166661,"date":"2026-02-24T06:40:06","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T06:40:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/166661\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T06:40:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T06:40:06","slug":"man-facing-eight-counts-of-attempted-murder-after-setting-springfield-house-on-fire-jso-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/166661\/","title":{"rendered":"Man facing eight counts of attempted murder after setting Springfield house on fire, JSO says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">JACKSONVILLE, Fla.  \u2013 The Jacksonville Sheriff\u2019s Office said it has arrested a man who is accused of intentionally setting a house in Springfield on fire while eight people were inside. <\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Police said Julius Lindo, 49, faces eight counts of attempted murder, a murder charge, and an arson charge for his alleged role in the incident, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.news4jax.com\/news\/local\/2026\/02\/21\/dead-person-found-in-springfield-house-fire-jso-says\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.news4jax.com\/news\/local\/2026\/02\/21\/dead-person-found-in-springfield-house-fire-jso-says\/\">which took place just before midnight on Friday. <\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">JSO said that when the fire was extinguished, officers discovered 62-year-old Willie Haywood Jr. had passed away in the home, which prompted the JSO Homicide Unit and the State Fire Marshal to begin an investigation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">After interviewing multiple witnesses, detectives, working in cooperation with the State Fire Marshal\u2019s Office, determined that Lindo intentionally set the home on fire, police said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">The eight counts of attempted murder represent one count for every person who was inside the home when Lindo allegedly set the fire, police added.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 by WJXT News4JAX &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2013 The Jacksonville Sheriff\u2019s Office said it has arrested a man who is accused of intentionally&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":166662,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[1637,116,118,117,1872,24182],"class_list":["post-166661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-arson","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news","tag-jso","tag-springfield"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166661","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=166661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166661\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/166662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}