COLUMBIA COUNTY, Fla. — The Columbia County Sheriff’s Workplace is investigating a murder after a physique was discovered off of State Street 47 Sunday.
A person, later recognized as 29-year-old Javont’e Wilkins, reported an incident to legislation enforcement in a neighboring county on Sunday night time, in response to CCSO. The sheriff’s workplace didn’t say what precisely what Wilkins instructed authorities in his name.
Primarily based on the knowledge from Wilkins, deputies discovered the physique of a 30-year-old man simply earlier than 9 p.m. on SW Concord Lane, close to State Street 47, the sheriff’s workplace stated.
Wilkins was later taken into custody in Hamilton County on a felony possession of a weapon cost.
“Such a case isn’t widespread in our space. We wish the general public to know that we consider that is an remoted incident and there aren’t any different threats to the general public associated to this incident,” Sheriff Mark Hunter stated.
The sufferer’s demise stays beneath investigation presently as a murder.