William George Brown Jr., 34, of Jacksonville, Florida, was shot and killed on May 19, 2020, at the Oak Hammock Apartments in the Woodland Acres community. Responding to a 911 call around 5:50 p.m., officers found Brown deceased from a gunshot wound. Multiple people were detained at the scene as homicide detectives opened an investigation.

Family described Brown as a great father and a man of God devoted to his children. Court records show a more complicated background, including several injunctions for protection involving his ex-wife and her family; a stalking injunction filed in September 2019 by the ex-wife’s sister was later dismissed. Brown’s mother said he had visited his ex-wife’s apartment with police the day before the shooting, an encounter that led to an argument during which her boyfriend intervened and Brown was shot. Brown’s wife, Ashley, was later arrested on charges of tampering with evidence.

If anyone knew William, witnessed the incident, or has information about what happened that afternoon, please share what is known.