LeBron Jacobs was sentenced to 20 years in prison for killing 17-year-old Ken’yade Jones when he was 15 years old.<\/p>\n
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2014 A Jacksonville 16-year-old could spend the next 20 years of his life in prison for killing another teenager.<\/p>\n
A Duval County judge sentenced LeBron Jacobs to prison for the shooting death of 17-year-old Ken’yade Jones. Jacobs was 15 at the time.<\/p>\n
Jacobs turned himself in in December 2024, two months after the shooting. Although initially charged with second-degree murder, he pleaded guilty to manslaughter in January.<\/p>\n
Police responded to Venus-Mars Court in the Hogan’s Creek area on October 5, 2024, to investigate after Jones died at the hospital.<\/p>\n
According to the arrest report, multiple witnesses identified LeBron Jacobs, a Grand Park Career Center student, as the suspect. One recalled seeing him arguing with the victim prior to shooting him and running away.<\/p>\n
Following his prison sentence, a judge ordered that Jacobs be put on probation for eight years after two years of GPS monitoring.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LeBron Jacobs was sentenced to 20 years in prison for killing 17-year-old Ken’yade Jones when he was 15…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":295320,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":["post-295319","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\/295319","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=295319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295319\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/295320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=295319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=295319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=295319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}