{"id":291745,"date":"2026-06-01T13:50:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T13:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/291745\/"},"modified":"2026-06-01T13:50:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T13:50:08","slug":"arrest-made-in-deadly-moncrief-motel-shooting-police-looking-for-additional-suspect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/291745\/","title":{"rendered":"Arrest made in deadly Moncrief motel shooting, police looking for additional suspect"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man was shot and killed inside a motel room on Golfair Boulevard Friday. JSO officers arrested the man they said pulled the trigger.<\/p>\n<p>JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2014 A man is behind bars Monday as Jacksonville Sheriff&#8217;s Office detectives continue to search for another suspect in a deadly shooting at a Moncrief area motel Friday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>JSO officials said 25-year-old Alfred Jones III was arrested Sunday on murder charges after a man was shot and killed inside a room at the Metro Inn and Suites motel on Friday, May 29.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators said Jones and one other person shot and killed 40-year-old Giavonathan Butler at the motel, and said he didn&#8217;t work alone.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information should call First Coast Crime Stoppers at 1-866-845-TIPS. They are offering up to a $5,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of the second suspect in this case.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man was shot and killed inside a motel room on Golfair Boulevard Friday. JSO officers arrested the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":291746,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":["post-291745","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\/291745","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=291745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291745\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/291746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=291745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=291745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=291745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}