A housing dispute in Brandon turned deadly on the evening of March 9, 2026. Thirty-year-old Travon Jackson was shot inside an apartment at the Lakewood Place complex on Lake Chapman Drive after an altercation with the apartment’s occupants. Deputies arrived shortly before 5:45 p.m. and found Jackson with a gunshot wound; he was pronounced dead at the scene.

Jackson had been subletting the unit from a married couple identified as James Sidney Llanos, 47, and Lizeina Marie Cepeda, 39. The couple went to the apartment intending to evict Jackson, and the confrontation escalated to violence. Both Llanos and Cepeda were taken into custody; Llanos has been charged with first-degree murder while engaged in a burglary and armed burglary of a dwelling with assault or battery, and Cepeda faces charges including first-degree murder while engaged in a burglary and burglary of an occupied dwelling with assault or battery. Sheriff Chad Chronister described the shooting as a senseless act of violence.

Who knew Travon Jackson or was familiar with the subletting arrangement at Lakewood Place and might have information about what happened that night?