{"id":377027,"date":"2026-08-21T00:06:16","date_gmt":"2026-08-21T00:06:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/377027\/"},"modified":"2026-08-21T00:06:16","modified_gmt":"2026-08-21T00:06:16","slug":"nephew-accused-of-shooting-61-year-old-uncle-at-northwest-jacksonville-laundromat-arrested","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/377027\/","title":{"rendered":"Nephew accused of shooting 61-year-old uncle at Northwest Jacksonville laundromat arrested"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2013 The nephew of a 61-year-old man found shot to death inside a laundromat in Northwest Jacksonville was arrested in connection with the murder.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">On Feb. 23, District 6 Patrol officers responded to a laundromat off Soutel Drive after receiving reports of a shooting. When officers arrived, they found <a href=\"https:\/\/www.news4jax.com\/news\/local\/2026\/03\/12\/something\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.news4jax.com\/news\/local\/2026\/03\/12\/something\/\">61-year-old Roderick Crawford<\/a> with multiple gunshot wounds. <\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">JSO said surveillance video showed Crawford loading clothing into a dryer when a young man wearing a mask shot him in the back of the head.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">The alleged shooter was identified as Crawford\u2019s nephew, La\u2019Darius Purdy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">On Wednesday, Purdy was arrested on an active warrant for domestic battery, stemming from an incident in January.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">While he was in jail on Thursday, detectives interviewed Purdy about his uncle\u2019s murder. Following the interview, Purdy was arrested on murder and tampering with evidence charges.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 by WJXT News4JAX &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2013 The nephew of a 61-year-old man found shot to death inside a laundromat in Northwest&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":377028,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[1039,116,118,117],"class_list":["post-377027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-duval-county","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377027","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=377027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377027\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/377028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=377027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=377027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=377027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}