JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2014 Two men were arrested for Murder and Armed Battery for a 2022 incident that led to the death of a 23-year-old, says the Jacksonville Sheriff\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n
According to JSO, in September 2022, District 3 Patrol officers responded to an apartment complex on Kernan Boulevard, referring to a shooting. A tenant told officers that three masked men broke into his apartment and fired shots, with him firing back.<\/p>\n
>>> STREAM ACTION NEWS JAX LIVE <<<<\/a><\/p>\n Almost an hour later, District 4 Patrol officers responded to a hospital on 103rd Street and found that 23-year-old Melvin Keepler Jr. had been found with a gunshot wound. Keepler passed away from his injuries.<\/p>\n JSO says that after an Homicide Unit launched an investigation, detectives learned Keepler Jr., 23-year-old Tyss Harris, and 25-year-old Talint Curtis were the masked men who broke into the apartment on Kernan Boulevard.<\/p>\n The investigation continued, and on June 24, 2025, detectives received an arrest warrant for Harris. He was arrested the same day with the help of the US Marshals Task Force.<\/p>\n Curtis was arrested in Bay County, Florida, last week and was transported to Duval County jail the next day.<\/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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2014 Two men were arrested for Murder and Armed Battery for a 2022 incident that led…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":175766,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[344,347,28,348,116,351,118,117,1415,1872,83149,83150,349,350,346,345],"class_list":["post-176418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-action-news-jax","tag-cbs47","tag-florida","tag-fox30","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-fl","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news","tag-jacksonville-sheriffs-office","tag-jso","tag-murder-and-armed-battery","tag-murder-arrests","tag-northeast-florida","tag-southeast-georgia","tag-wfox","tag-wjax"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176418","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=176418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176418\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/175766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}