JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2013 The Jacksonville Community Action Coalition will hold a vigil and rally at the Jacksonville Sheriff\u2019s Office headquarters to demand answers one year after the death of a Duval County inmate.<\/p>\n
April 7 marks a year since an unspecified \u201cincident\u201d involving nine corrections officers, who were reassigned, led to the death of a 31-year-old Charles Faggart at the Duval County Jail.<\/p>\n
Faggart, owner of a food truck and catering company, was arrested on misdemeanor charges of simple assault and criminal mischief on April 1, 2025. <\/p>\n
On April 10, 2025, he was officially declared dead.<\/p>\n
Many questions remain in the case that was turned over to the Federal Bureau of Investigation.<\/p>\n
Participants at the rally are expected to demand changes to JSO\u2019s policies and honor Faggart\u2019s memory.<\/p>\n
According to a heavily redacted report, six days into Faggart\u2019s misdemeanor jail stay, he was handcuffed for unclear reasons and began acting \u201caggressive, erratic and disruptive,\u201d prompting a sergeant to order him strapped into a restraint safety chair.<\/p>\n
RELATED: \u2018Do your job\u2019: Nearly 4 months after Duval County inmate\u2019s death, his mother continues to demand accountability from JSO<\/a> | Medical records shed new light on controversial jail death, contradict JSO account: The Tributary<\/a><\/p>\n The report said Faggart kept struggling with officers, but key details about what officers did are redacted; it said a mental health director later approved moving him to \u201cself-harm housing,\u201d and officers put an anti-spit mask on him.<\/p>\n The report noted that Faggart said he \u201cdid fentanyl,\u201d but UF Health records said a urine test showed no fentanyl. The report also said a nurse flushed his eyes with saline \u2014suggesting pepper spray\u2014while medical records indicated lung damage.<\/p>\n Faggart was taken out of the chair and put back in minutes later for a redacted reason, the report said. The remaining narrative is largely redacted. <\/p>\n Medical staff arrived, and the paramedics were called. The report listed a \u201cseizure\u201d as the medical emergency, but according to an attorney for Faggart\u2019s family, he was \u201cbeaten.\u201d<\/p>\n Faggart\u2019s family will also be in attendance, according to organizers.<\/p>\n JSO said the corrections officers who were reassigned remain in those roles.<\/p>\n Also, the sheriff\u2019s office said the internal investigation cannot begin until the criminal investigation is finished. <\/p>\n JSO provided no additional updates, and the FBI also said it had no new information.<\/p>\n Copyright 2026 by WJXT News4JAX – All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2013 The Jacksonville Community Action Coalition will hold a vigil and rally at the Jacksonville Sheriff\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":221318,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[14296,116,118,117,1872],"class_list":["post-221317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-charles-faggart","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news","tag-jso"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221317","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=221317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221317\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/221318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}