{"id":209187,"date":"2026-03-28T02:47:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-28T02:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/209187\/"},"modified":"2026-03-28T02:47:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T02:47:08","slug":"family-mourns-jacksonville-road-rage-shooting-victim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/209187\/","title":{"rendered":"Family mourns Jacksonville road-rage shooting victim"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2013 No arrests have been made in a road-rage shooting <a href=\"https:\/\/www.news4jax.com\/news\/local\/2026\/03\/23\/road-rage-shootout-leaves-1-dead-in-northwest-jacksonville-police-say\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.news4jax.com\/news\/local\/2026\/03\/23\/road-rage-shootout-leaves-1-dead-in-northwest-jacksonville-police-say\/\">Sunday night<\/a> that happened on Edgewood Avenue West and I-95.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">The Jacksonville Sheriff\u2019s Office found Ronald Lillard on scene with a gunshot wound to the chest. He died on scene that night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Friends and family gathered at a vigil Friday afternoon to remember Lillard, a Navy veteran who served in the Persian Gulf War, a father of five, and a grandfather of 10.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">His daughter Darnesha Lillard said the turnout meant everything to her family.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">\u201cI\u2019m trying to make sure I hold my siblings up in prayer,\u201d she said. \u201cI\u2019m asking that everyone hold us up in prayer because it\u2019s definitely a difficult situation for us to have to endure.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Darnesha described her father as a great man taken too soon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">\u201cMy dad really enjoyed music. He enjoyed music, he enjoyed life in itself,\u201d she said. \u201cHe loved to dance, he loved to sing. Everyone who knows him knows, you know, he loved motorcycles, he loved cars. So we just want to make sure that we remember those good times.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Lillard was a Chicago native. Darnesha said the family plans to hold services in Jacksonville before sending him home to Chicago.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">JSO previously said investigators were looking for a small silver SUV in connection with the shooting. As of Friday, no arrests have been made.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Darnesha is calling on anyone with information to come forward.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">\u201cWe, as his children, his grandchildren, deserve to know what happened to him, what transpired, and we also deserve justice,\u201d she said. \u201cIf you know anybody in the situation, if you heard anything, report it to Crimestoppers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 by WJXT News4JAX &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2013 No arrests have been made in a road-rage shooting Sunday night that happened on Edgewood&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":209188,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[116,118,117,1415,95704,4325],"class_list":{"0":"post-209187","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jacksonville","8":"tag-jacksonville","9":"tag-jacksonville-headlines","10":"tag-jacksonville-news","11":"tag-jacksonville-sheriffs-office","12":"tag-jso-investigation","13":"tag-vigil"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209187","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=209187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209187\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/209188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}