JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2014 Only on Action News Jax, the daughter of a woman killed in 2017 is speaking out after the only suspect in her mother\u2019s death is now behind bars and accused of stabbing a man to death. <\/p>\n
Jason Guthrie was arrested on October 30th after allegedly stabbing a coworker to death<\/a> on their first day working a temp job at the Jacksonville Anheuser Busch Brewery.<\/p>\n When Summer Pace saw the news, it broke her heart.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s been very emotional and very lonely to feel like no one is helping. There\u2019s no justice for my mother, and now other families are suffering because of it as well,\u201d Pace said.<\/p>\n Pace\u2019s mother Autumn Lee Van Camp was found dead underneath a bed in Guthrie\u2019s home in 2017 by Guthrie\u2019s father.<\/p>\n Her death was classified as a homicide by JSO.<\/p>\n One day before Van Camp\u2019s body was discovered, Guthrie was arrested and accused of violently attacking his father, according to a 2017 police report.<\/p>\n That police report said Guthrie\u2019s father indicated his son suffered from mental illness, and Guthrie was Baker Acted.<\/p>\n Court records from the case involving the assault on Guthrie\u2019s father show he was deemed mentally incompetent and relinquished to the custody of DCF.<\/p>\n Pace told Action News Jax that while police suspected Guthrie may have killed her mother, he was never charged with her mother\u2019s murder.<\/p>\n JSO confirmed with Action News Jax Guthrie was the only suspect in Van Camp\u2019s homicide case and after the State Attorney\u2019s Office declined prosecution, her case was \u201cexceptionally closed\u201d.<\/p>\n According to the FBI,<\/a> that designation means law enforcement had identified the offender, but encountered a circumstance outside the control of law enforcement that prohibited the agency from arresting, charging, and prosecuting the offender.<\/p>\n \u201cIt is terrifying to think that people like this are slipping through the cracks,\u201d Pace said.<\/p>\n According to the State Attorney\u2019s Office, it did investigate Guthrie for the homicide, but \u201cWe could not move forward with prosecution at that time because the evidence did not meet the legal standard of proof beyond a reasonable doubt\u201d.<\/p>\n For years, Pace kept tabs on Guthrie\u2019s status, fearing he could harm others.<\/p>\n Guthrie was put in a state mental hospital after he was charged in 2017, but was released in 2020.<\/p>\n Later that year, Pace\u2019s fear came true when Guthrie was accused of stabbing a man outside a liquor store.<\/p>\n Guthrie was then placed back in a state mental hospital.<\/p>\n \u201cIt just kind of boggles me how this person, mentally incapacitated or not, has been allowed into the space of the public to possibly hurt other people,\u201d Pace said.<\/p>\n When finally convicted in both cases in 2024, he was sentenced to five years in prison, but was immediately released on time served.<\/p>\n \u201cIn both cases, we sought substantial prison sentences, but sentencing decisions rest within the discretion of the court. The court sentenced him to the time he had already served,\u201d said a spokesperson for the State Attorney\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n Now, a year later, he\u2019s facing new charges.<\/p>\n This time, second-degree murder.<\/p>\n Pace is hopeful this will be the last straw.<\/p>\n \u201cWhether or not he\u2019s incarcerated or he\u2019s in some kind of mental institution where he\u2019s not allowed to interact with the public is my main goal,\u201d Pace said.<\/p>\n She\u2019s also hoping, just possibly, that this could also open a new opportunity for charges to be brought in the case of her mother\u2019s death as well.<\/p>\n \u201cIn a perfect world and in my dreams, yes, he is held accountable for Autumn,\u201d Pace said.<\/p>\n The State Attorney\u2019s Office indicated on its end that the case remains open.<\/p>\n \u201cWe remain steadfast in our commitment to pursuing justice in this case and to protect the safety of our community,\u201d a spokesperson for the State Attorney\u2019s Office said.<\/p>\n Action News Jax contacted the attorney who represented Guthrie in his 2017 and 2020 cases. <\/p>\n He declined to comment, only saying Guthrie was \u201cnever charged\u201d in relation to Van Camp\u2019s death. <\/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 Action News Jax Top Stories<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2014 Only on Action News Jax, the daughter of a woman killed in 2017 is speaking…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":43711,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[982,28700,4095,2362,28701,969,28703,28695,116,118,117,28698,971,10417,28697,1872,634,28699,28696,28702,28704],"class_list":["post-43710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-action_news","tag-autumn_lee_van_camp","tag-dcf","tag-fbi","tag-guthrie","tag-jack","tag-jack_guthrie","tag-jack_jakesowan","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news","tag-jacksonville_anheuser-busch","tag-jake","tag-jake_stowan","tag-jason_guthrie","tag-jso","tag-local","tag-pace","tag-summer_pace","tag-van_camp","tag-van_camp_van_camp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43710","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=43710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43710\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}