{"id":239406,"date":"2026-04-20T20:32:05","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T20:32:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/239406\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T20:32:05","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T20:32:05","slug":"two-dead-in-apparent-murder-suicide-in-fleming-island-investigators-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/239406\/","title":{"rendered":"Two dead in apparent murder-suicide in Fleming Island, investigators say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Investigators with the Clay County Sheriff&#8217;s Office said a 34-year-old man and his 36-year-old girlfriend were found dead inside an apartment.<\/p>\n<p>FLEMING ISLAND, Fla. \u2014 A man and woman are dead after a shooting Saturday inside a Fleming Island apartment that Clay County Sheriff&#8217;s Office (CCSO) investigators are calling an apparent murder-suicide.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators said deputies were contacted Saturday by a family member of the 34-year-old man, saying they were concerned by a message they got from him.<\/p>\n<p>Deputies responded to his apartment on County Road 220 in Fleming Island for a welfare check. Upon entering the home after trying to contact him, they found two people dead inside.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators identified the man and his 36-year-old girlfriend as the two inside and said both were pronounced dead from apparent gunshot wounds.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Initial signs point to the shooting being a domestic murder-suicide, investigators said, but the investigation is still ongoing.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information on this incident is asked to call the Clay County Sheriff&#8217;s Office at 904-264-6512 or First Coast Crime Stoppers at 1-866-845-TIPS (8477).\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Investigators with the Clay County Sheriff&#8217;s Office said a 34-year-old man and his 36-year-old girlfriend were found dead&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2401,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":["post-239406","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\/239406","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=239406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239406\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}