{"id":288926,"date":"2026-05-29T14:25:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T14:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/288926\/"},"modified":"2026-05-29T14:25:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T14:25:08","slug":"arrest-made-in-deadly-triple-stabbing-on-jacksonvilles-westside","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/288926\/","title":{"rendered":"Arrest made in deadly triple stabbing on Jacksonville’s Westside"},"content":{"rendered":"

Austin Fisher, 30, has been arrested in connection to a triple stabbing on Exodus Way that left two men and one woman dead.<\/p>\n

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2014 A 30-year-old man has been arrested in connection to a deadly triple stabbing in Jacksonville<\/a>, the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office announced Friday.<\/p>\n

Austin Fisher was taken into custody on Thursday following an hourslong standoff with SWAT and JSO’s Community Problem Response Unit. He faces three second-degree murder charges in addition to an armed robbery charge in connection to the stabbing, according to jail records.<\/p>\n


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JSO said Fisher was found hiding at a motel in the Normandy Village area.<\/p>\n


\nWhat happened? <\/p>\n

Around 3 a.m. on Thursday, JSO said a neighbor on Exodus Way called 911 saying a man was knocking on his front door.<\/p>\n

When officers arrived, JSO said they found 49-year-old Edwin Barber on the front porch of a home with a stab wound to his chest.<\/p>\n

Officers learned that Barber had been stabbed at his home down the street and ran to his neighbor’s house for help.<\/p>\n

Once officers went to Barber’s house, JSO said they found a woman, identified as 27-year-old Savannah Barber, inside a bedroom with multiple stab wounds.<\/p>\n

While continuing to canvass the neighborhood, JSO said officers found another man, identified as 37-year-old Shad Cole, with multiple stab wounds on the porch of another home.<\/p>\n

Cole and Savannah Barber reportedly died before they could receive medical attention, according to JSO, while Edwin Barber died at a local hospital.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Austin Fisher, 30, has been arrested in connection to a triple stabbing on Exodus Way that left two…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":288927,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":["post-288926","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\/288926","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=288926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288926\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/288927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=288926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}