The Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office (JSO) is now reporting arise in Jacksonville’s murder rate for the first time in three years. JSO is also reporting that fewer murder cases have been cleared this year, as opposed to last year.
Records from JSO show that 76 murders were reported in Jacksonville throughout 2025, which is higher than the 63 murders reported in 2024. At the start of the year, Action News Jax told you when city council members filed a resolution recognizing JSO for its sharp decrease in murders in 2024 compared to 2023, and, at the time, Sheriff T.K. Waters had vowed to keep safety his top priority going into 2025.
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Although the number of cleared cases had risen from 2023 to 2024, the number has fallen from 2024 to 2025. JSO reported that 73% of the murders committed in 2024 were cleared, but the agency reported that 55% of the murders committed in 2025 have been cleared.
Ashley Mathis is among the local families still waiting for closure in the murder of their loved one. We first told you in September when her brother, Noah Sullivan, was shot and killed at a home in the Pine Forest neighborhood. Mathis and some Action News Jax viewers claim that his murder was recorded on a Facebook livestream, but there still has not been an arrest despite what they call “video evidence.”…