{"id":206333,"date":"2026-03-26T02:54:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T02:54:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/206333\/"},"modified":"2026-03-26T02:54:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T02:54:07","slug":"family-pleads-for-justice-after-father-of-four-killed-in-arlington-this-was-the-work-of-evil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/206333\/","title":{"rendered":"Family pleads for justice after father of four killed in Arlington: ‘This was the work of evil’"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Jacksonville family is pleading for justice after Tayvon Sellers was shot outside his apartment Sunday, with police still searching for the person responsible.<\/p>\n

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2014 A Jacksonville family is pleading for answers after a father of four was\u00a0shot and killed\u00a0<\/a>outside his Arlington apartment early Sunday morning.<\/p>\n

Family members say Tayvon Sellers was a devoted father, brother and fianc\u00e9. The shooting happened around 1:40 a.m. March 22 at the Gregory Cove Apartments off Justina Road, according to the Jacksonville Sheriff\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n

Investigators said Sellers and another man were outside the complex when someone opened fire. Sellers was found by the walkway and taken to a hospital, where he later died. The other man was shot in the leg and drove himself to the hospital. No arrests have been made.<\/p>\n

Sellers\u2019 younger sister, Raveen Smith, described her brother as the heart of the family.<\/p>\n

“That\u2019s my best friend,” she said. “That\u2019s my first love.\u201d<\/p>\n

Smith said her brother was full of life and laughter, known for his silly sense of humor and his love of family dinners every Sunday at their mother\u2019s house.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe was love. He is like, the epitome of it,\u201d she said. \u201cHe woke up every day dedicated to changing his life so he could be there for his girls.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Family members say Sellers had been engaged to his longtime partner, Beonca Allen, and was planning to get married in November.<\/p>\n

\u201cI woke up to this man every day for the last nine years,\u201d Allen said through tears. \u201cPlease, please, speak up.\u201d<\/p>\n

The family is now urging anyone with information about the shooting to contact police.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe want you to go to somebody,” the family said. “Say something. Talk to these people. He was a father. He was a good guy, and he didn\u2019t deserve any of this.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was the devil\u2019s work,” his younger sister added. “This was the work of evil.”<\/p>\n

The Jacksonville Sheriff\u2019s Office said the investigation remains active but has not released any new developments in identifying a suspect.<\/p>\n

Anyone with information is asked to call JSO at (904) 630-0500 or send an anonymous tip to JSOCrimeTips@jaxsheriff.org.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Jacksonville family is pleading for justice after Tayvon Sellers was shot outside his apartment Sunday, with police…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":206334,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":["post-206333","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\/206333","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=206333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206333\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/206334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}