During Jacksonville’s first Community Crime Prevention Walk, Rose DeVoe shared her grief and plea for justice following her son Gabriel’s killing<\/p>\n
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2014 Today, the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office held its first Sheriff\u2019s Community Crime Prevention Walk of the year in Arlington, bringing deputies face-to-face with neighbors along Merrill Road.<\/p>\n
Among those walking Saturday morning was Rose DeVoe, a mother who says her 23-year-old son was killed in that very ZIP code.<\/p>\n
\u201cGabriel kissed my right cheek one morning and he never came back home, so I am out here today because I think it\u2019s important to be present. I know that there are many victims in the county and they reside in all ZIP Codes.\u201d said DeVoe<\/p>\n
DeVoe\u2019s son, Gabriel DeVoe, was shot and killed in an Arlington apartment parking lot in November 2022, just one semester away from graduating from college. She says he had come home for a simple visit when his life was cut short.<\/p>\n
\u201cGabriel had his whole life in front of him. He was about to graduate from college. He was about to embark on everything that he works hard for and they made a decision they had no right to make and I\u2019m going to be certain to let them in the eyes and let them know what they took from us and they took Gabriel.\u201d<\/p>\n
She joined other residents at Saturday\u2019s walk, pleading for someone to come forward with information in her son\u2019s death.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt wasn\u2019t easy for me to get up this morning, knowing that my son was killed in this very ZIP Code\u201d said DeVoe<\/p>\n
The walk was led by Sheriff T.K. Waters, who says community engagement is critical to public safety.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe police department and the sheriff’s department does not stand on its own. It is only as good as one the public approval that we have into the public that participates with us to be able to solve crimes and fix issues and we\u2019ve had a lot of great public participation.\u201d, the sheriff said.<\/p>\n
DeVoe says her message is simple: if you know something, say something.<\/p>\n
\u201cFamilies are counting on you. My family is counting on you. You can make a difference for us. You can bring us peace.\u201d said DeVoe<\/p>\n
The Sheriff\u2019s Office says more crime prevention walks are planned throughout the year in different parts of Jacksonville. Anyone with information in Gabriel DeVoe\u2019s case is urged to contact the Jacksonville Sheriff\u2019s Office or Crime Stoppers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"During Jacksonville’s first Community Crime Prevention Walk, Rose DeVoe shared her grief and plea for justice following her…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":173308,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":["post-173307","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\/173307","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=173307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173307\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/173308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}