{"id":295297,"date":"2026-06-04T02:35:07","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T02:35:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/295297\/"},"modified":"2026-06-04T02:35:07","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T02:35:07","slug":"man-sentenced-to-17-years-in-prison-for-murder-at-valencia-way-apartments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/295297\/","title":{"rendered":"Man sentenced to 17 years in prison for murder at Valencia Way Apartments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dwayne Martin pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in the October 2023 shooting of Bernard Troutman Jr. on the Westside.<\/p>\n<p>JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2014 A Duval County judge sentenced the man responsible for a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.firstcoastnews.com\/article\/news\/crime\/dwayne-martin-arrested-on-murder-charges-stemming-from-2023-westside-killing\/77-d8b4cc78-699f-4392-bd88-7e8ae5494a69\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">deadly shooting at the Valencia Way Apartments<\/a> to 17 years in prison Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Dwayne Martin, 32, was handed his sentence after pleading guilty to second-degree murder in the killing of 36-year-old Bernard Troutman Jr.<\/p>\n<p>The shooting happened at the apartment complex on October 30, 2023. According to Martin&#8217;s arrest report, police responded that afternoon to find Troutman dead from a gunshot wound to the neck or head.<\/p>\n<p>In one of the initial 911 calls, police reported hearing a witness yell &#8220;Wayne just shot that guy!&#8221; Martin was positively identified by two witnesses from the scene. One said they saw him shoot Troutman as he walked away unarmed, and then run away.<\/p>\n<p>Martin was arrested in July 2024 and received credit for his 701 days already served.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dwayne Martin pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in the October 2023 shooting of Bernard Troutman Jr. on the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":295298,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":["post-295297","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\/295297","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=295297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295297\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/295298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=295297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=295297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=295297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}