{"id":179355,"date":"2026-03-05T15:13:29","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T15:13:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/179355\/"},"modified":"2026-03-05T15:13:29","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T15:13:29","slug":"jacksonville-man-charged-with-murder-for-alleged-role-in-baymeadows-road-shooting-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/179355\/","title":{"rendered":"Jacksonville man charged with murder for alleged role in Baymeadows Road shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A Jacksonville man was arrested for murder Wednesday for his alleged role in an 2025 armed robbery-gone-wrong, and police didn&#8217;t have to try too hard to find him \u2014 he was already behind bars.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Damon Thomas, 45, is accused of attempting to rob the owner of a business on Baymeadows Road with 32-year-old Rhoderius Simmons in November. The Jacksonville Sheriff&#8217;s Office says that Simmons was shot during an exchange of gunfire with the owner.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;While Simmons passed away in the parking lot, Thomas drove off from the area,&#8221; the sheriff&#8217;s office said in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/share\/p\/18NRQvNFaT\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:a social media post.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">a social media post.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Under Florida law, suspects can be charged with murder if a co-offender is killed or kills someone else during the commission of a felony. In addition, Thomas was arrested for attempted murder, possession of a firearm as a convicted felon and attempted armed robbery.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Thomas was already in the Duval County jail Wednesday. He had previously been arrested in December 2025 after allegedly molesting a child earlier that year. He has pleaded not guilty to that charge and is expected to go to trial.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Jacksonville man was arrested for murder Wednesday for his alleged role in an 2025 armed robbery-gone-wrong, and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":179356,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[14513,7774,28927,84816,116,118,117,84817],"class_list":["post-179355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-armed-robbery","tag-attempted-murder","tag-baymeadows-road","tag-damon-thomas","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news","tag-rhoderius-simmons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179355","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=179355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179355\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/179356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}