{"id":295374,"date":"2026-06-04T03:50:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T03:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/295374\/"},"modified":"2026-06-04T03:50:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T03:50:10","slug":"jacksonville-16-year-old-sentenced-to-prison-for-killing-another-teen-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/295374\/","title":{"rendered":"Jacksonville 16-year-old sentenced to prison for killing another teen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A Jacksonville 16-year-old could spend the next 20 years of his life in prison for killing another teenager.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A Duval County judge sentenced LeBron Jacobs to prison for the shooting death of 17-year-old Ken&#8217;yade Jones. Jacobs was 15 at the time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">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<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Police responded to Venus-Mars Court in the Hogan&#8217;s Creek area on October 5, 2024, to investigate after Jones died at the hospital.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">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<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">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":"A Jacksonville 16-year-old could spend the next 20 years of his life in prison for killing another teenager.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":242601,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[116,118,117,124476,1936,17115],"class_list":["post-295374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news","tag-lebron-jacobs","tag-life-in-prison","tag-prison-sentence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295374","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=295374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295374\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/242601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=295374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=295374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=295374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}