A jury took a little more than hour last week to find a Jacksonville man guilty of a 2023 triple murder, including his grandparents , according to court records.
Ja-Darrius Jashawn Jones was 18 at the time he gunned down his grandparents, 58-year-old Uneeda Voncile Hardy and 63-year-old Gregory Joel Merritt, and friend Luther Lewis Williams, 44, at the family home on Bridges Road near Dunn Avenue. The family had previously told television news that it was over some kind of feud.
Police were called to the home about 12:30 p.m. on Jan. 15 and found Williams dead in the front yard and Merritt and Hardy dead in a bedroom. All had been shot multiple times, according to the arrest report…