{"id":323203,"date":"2026-06-29T11:35:56","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T11:35:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/323203\/"},"modified":"2026-06-29T11:35:56","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T11:35:56","slug":"family-of-westside-man-killed-in-triple-stabbing-gathers-to-celebrate-his-life-104-5-wokv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/323203\/","title":{"rendered":"Family of Westside man killed in triple stabbing gathers to celebrate his life \u2013 104.5 WOKV"},"content":{"rendered":"

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2014 The friends and family of 37-year-old Shad Cole, one of three victims who were stabbed and killed on Jacksonville\u2019s Westside<\/a> late last month, gathered on Sunday to celebrate his life at Party Place in Mandarin.<\/p>\n

Rather than everybody feeling down, one of Cole\u2019s cousins, Jonathan Kinney, says they\u2019re choosing to celebrate Cole the way he would\u2019ve wanted.<\/p>\n

\u201cGot the pool, got the barbecue grill going, you know, just having a good time and hanging out,\u201d Kinney said.<\/p>\n

At the gathering were dozens of Cole\u2019s loved ones, a pastor, several inflatable pools, a playground, drinks, an Italian ice and lemonade stand, barbecue on the grill and enough laughs to make anyone feel like family.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re blessed and fortunate for the time we had with him,\u201d Kinney said. \u201cWe\u2019ll never forget that, never forget the memories we made with him.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kinney describes Cole as honest, loyal and someone he and his brother looked up to, especially when they were kids.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe wanted to walk like him, talk like him, we wanted to be just like him,\u201d Kinney said. \u201cHe had that impact on us.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kinney says that on the night of Cole\u2019s death, they found something in Cole\u2019s back pocket that brought the entire family some comfort.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe found the Lord\u2019s Prayer in his wallet, so that brings peace to me and to my family and my brothers that he was making that move towards Christ,\u201d Kinney said. \u201cI know deep down in my soul that he gave his life to the Lord, and I know when my time comes, I\u2019ll see him again, and we\u2019ll have plenty of boat days when that day comes.\u201d<\/p>\n

It was exactly one month ago today that the triple stabbing took place. Also stabbed and killed that night was who his family describes as the love of his life, 27-year-old Savannah Barber, and her father, 49-year-old Edwin Barber<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Savannah and Cole leave behind two kids \u2014 both just 13 years old.<\/p>\n

Austin Fisher, the man accused of the stabbings, pleaded guilty to all three counts of second-degree murder<\/a> and one count of armed robbery on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

>>> STREAM ACTION NEWS JAX LIVE <<<<\/a><\/p>\n

[DOWNLOAD: Free Action News Jax app for alerts as news breaks<\/a>]<\/p>\n

[SIGN UP: Action News Jax Daily Headlines Newsletter<\/a>] <\/p>\n

Click here<\/a> to download the free Action News Jax news and weather apps, click here<\/a> to download the Action News Jax Now app for your smart TV and click here<\/a> to stream Action News Jax live.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2014 The friends and family of 37-year-old Shad Cole, one of three victims who were stabbed…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":323204,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[58071,122726,55102,88568,122729,60172,20358,969,116,118,117,6458,46803,133830,133831,133832,634,122727,45028],"class_list":["post-323203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-act_news","tag-austin_fisher","tag-casey","tag-casey_stone","tag-chad_cole","tag-christ","tag-cole","tag-jack","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news","tag-jacksonville_sheriffs_office","tag-jacksonvilles","tag-jacksonvilles_west_side","tag-jonathan_kenny","tag-kenny","tag-local","tag-savannah_barber","tag-west_side"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323203","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=323203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323203\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/323204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=323203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=323203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=323203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}