The Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office has not yet begun an internal affairs investigation into the nine officers stripped of their jail duties following a clash with 31-year-old Charles Faggart, who died in early April at UF Health, another loose thread in a slow-moving series of investigations surrounding the controversial death.
Faggart’s family, through an attorney, told The Tributary that over the course of the more than six months that have passed since he died, they have developed “growing concern over the lack of movement in the official investigation into his death.”
State Attorney Melissa Nelson’s office has investigated Faggart’s death but recently announced it was letting federal authorities take the lead. The FBI and U.S. Attorney’s Office issued grand jury subpoenas for witness testimony over the summer – which The Tributary recently obtained – but those documents shed little light on what issues federal authorities are scrutinizing, and it’s unclear when that investigation will be done…