{"id":267633,"date":"2026-05-12T05:36:17","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T05:36:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/267633\/"},"modified":"2026-05-12T05:36:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T05:36:17","slug":"neighbors-react-to-jacksonville-couple-found-dead-inside-home-investigation-underway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/267633\/","title":{"rendered":"Neighbors react to Jacksonville couple found dead inside home; investigation underway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">An investigation is underway after two people were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/articles\/jso-two-people-found-dead-140140677.html\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:found dead;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;found dead&quot;}\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">found dead<\/a> inside a Jacksonville home over the weekend, according to the Jacksonville Sheriff\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Officers responded around 10 p.m. on Saturday, May 9, to Sherman Hills Parkway West in the Blue Lake Estates neighborhood for a welfare check after a neighbor became concerned about the couple, according to the sheriff&#8217;s office. The neighbor said they couldn&#8217;t contact the couple and their garage door had reportedly been open all day.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">When officers arrived, they met with the complainant and later entered the home with assistance from the homeowner\u2019s daughter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Officers found two seniors unresponsive on the bedroom floor, who were quickly pronounced deceased.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Neighbor Val England said he woke up Sunday morning to flashing lights and crime scene tape outside the home.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cIt\u2019s just unreal, it\u2019s unreal, this is the first time something like this ever happened to me like this, right next door,\u201d England said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">England said he immediately knew something was wrong after seeing deputies and detectives outside the home.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cSheriffs, detectives, I\u2019m like something is going on that it shouldn\u2019t be,\u201d England said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">He also said it was unusual to see the garage left open for such a long period of time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cYou know normally when he\u2019s in his garage, his TV on, but I\u2019m like unusual for his garage door to be up,\u201d England said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">England described the couple as caring neighbors who had been part of the community for years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cVery loving couple, very helpful,\u201d England said. \u201cI mean, she even babysat my little daughter when I needed her to; always willing to babysit my daughter.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">According to the incident report, investigators believe this was an isolated incident and not domestic violence-related. The cause of death was not immediately identified.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Anyone with information on the incident is asked to contact the Jacksonville Sheriff\u2019s Office directly or leave an anonymous tip via <a href=\"https:\/\/fccrimestoppers.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:First Coast Crime Stoppers.;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;First Coast Crime Stoppers.&quot;}\" class=\"link \">First Coast Crime Stoppers.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An investigation is underway after two people were found dead inside a Jacksonville home over the weekend, according&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":267634,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[8094,116,118,117,85663],"class_list":["post-267633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-england","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news","tag-welfare-check"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267633","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=267633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267633\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/267634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}