Jury selection is set to get underway Monday morning, March 30, 2026, in Jacksonville in the criminal trial of 20-year-old Darien Mixson, who is accused of killing two people in a March 2023 shooting. One of the victims was identified by family as 20-year-old Craivon Aiken, the younger brother of Kamiyah Mobley. Prosecutors say the case involves multiple serious felony counts and an investigation that stretched for more than three years, and the start of paneling marks the first public step toward trial.
Court records show jury selection is scheduled to begin at 9:30 a.m. Monday, with roughly 42 jurors expected to be chosen, according to First Coast News. Mixson faces two counts of first-degree murder, a charge of armed burglary, a count of grand theft auto, and a charge for possession of a firearm by a juvenile delinquent found to have committed a felony act. Those are the legal questions potential jurors will be asked to confront if they are ultimately seated.
Case background
The double shooting happened on March 1, 2023, when two men were found dead inside an apartment at The Square at 59 Caroline in the Arlington neighborhood, local reporting shows. Family members identified one victim as Craivon Aiken, and the case quickly drew wide attention because Aiken is the son of Craig Aiken and the younger brother of Kamiyah Mobley, who was returned to her family in 2017 after being kidnapped as a newborn, per News4Jax.
Police said a witness called 911 after the shooting, and investigators later tracked a vehicle taken from the scene, a key detail that factored into early arrests and charges reported at the time.
Defendant and charges
At the time of the killings, Mixson was 17 and a student at Ribault High School. He is now 20 and is being tried on adult felony counts, according to court records and local reporting. Prosecutors have filed the two murder counts alongside burglary and grand-theft charges, First Coast News reports…