{"id":287052,"date":"2026-05-28T03:41:30","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T03:41:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/287052\/"},"modified":"2026-05-28T03:41:30","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T03:41:30","slug":"jacksonville-christmas-day-2024-shooting-suspect-charged-with-manslaughter-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/287052\/","title":{"rendered":"Jacksonville Christmas Day 2024 shooting suspect charged with manslaughter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">A man was arrested Tuesday in connection with the Christmas Day 2024 shooting death of a woman, the Jacksonville Sheriff\u2019s Office said. \u2014 A man was arrested Tuesday in connection with the Christmas Day 2024 shooting death of a woman, the Jacksonville Sheriff\u2019s Office said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Thomas Banks, 48, is charged with manslaughter and possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, according to a JSO arrest report.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.actionnewsjax.com\/live-breaking\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.actionnewsjax.com\/live-breaking\/\" target=\"_blank\">&gt;&gt;&gt; STREAM ACTION NEWS JAX LIVE &lt;&lt;&lt;<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">On Christmas Day 2024, police responded to an apartment complex on Dunn Avenue and found Lisa Santos, 39, with a gunshot wound to her chest.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">She died before she could be taken to the hospital, JSO said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">[DOWNLOAD: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.actionnewsjax.com\/mobile-apps\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Free Action News Jax app for alerts as news breaks<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Investigators reviewed surveillance footage, swabbed the firearm that was found in the apartment, and interviewed witnesses and identified Banks as the suspect.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">An arrest warrant for Banks was issued Friday and he turned himself in on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">He is being held in the Duval County Jail on a $850,003 bond.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">[SIGN UP: <a href=\"https:\/\/membercenter.actionnewsjax.com\/newsletters\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Action News Jax Daily Headlines Newsletter<\/a>] <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.actionnewsjax.com\/mobile-apps\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Click here<\/a> to download the free Action News Jax news and weather apps, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.actionnewsjax.com\/mobile-apps\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a> to download the Action News Jax Now app for your smart TV and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.actionnewsjax.com\/video\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a> to stream Action News Jax live.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man was arrested Tuesday in connection with the Christmas Day 2024 shooting death of a woman, the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":285185,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[344,347,49195,28,348,116,351,118,117,1415,121013,349,47742,350,121012,346,345],"class_list":["post-287052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-action-news-jax","tag-cbs47","tag-christmas-day","tag-florida","tag-fox30","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-fl","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news","tag-jacksonville-sheriffs-office","tag-manslaughter-charge","tag-northeast-florida","tag-shooting-death","tag-southeast-georgia","tag-thomas-banks","tag-wfox","tag-wjax"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287052","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=287052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287052\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/285185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}