A lethal late-night confrontation in Oakleaf Plantation, Orange Park, Florida, ended with two women dead on December 17, 2025. Noely Makenda, a 21-year-old of Congolese descent, lived on Hanging Moss Drive with fellow active-duty Navy personnel. A visitor’s arrival sparked a dispute among Makenda, roommate Jordyn Forrestier, and the wife of a third roommate, Taylor Marques Lomax.

Witnesses and the Clay County Sheriff’s Office say the argument moved into the front yard and became physical. Authorities allege Lomax, 22 and assigned to Naval Air Station Jacksonville, went back into the house, retrieved a handgun, then returned and fired roughly 30 rounds. Makenda and Forrestier were found in the yard with multiple gunshot wounds and were pronounced dead at the scene.

Taylor Lomax was taken into custody at the residence and later booked into the Clay County Jail. Prosecutors charged him with two counts of second-degree murder and he was ordered held without bond as the investigation continued.

Did anyone in the area see or hear anything that night that could clarify how the confrontation escalated?