JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Police released the names Friday of the woman and two men who were killed early Thursday morning in a triple stabbing in the Normandy Estates neighborhood of Jacksonville’s Westside.
Police said 49-year-old Edwin Barber, 27-year-old Savannah Barber and 37-year-old Shad Cole were found fatally stabbed on Exodus Way just after 4 a.m.
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Family members told News4JAX that Edwin is Savannah’s stepfather and Cole was her fiancé.
Police said the three were killed by 30-year-old Austin Fisher, who was taken into custody after a standoff with SWAT at a motel.
Police initially called the stabbings a domestic violence incident, but they have not said if or how Fisher is connected to the three victims.
A man who met Fisher shortly after the stabbing said Fisher told him that he’d killed his roommate and his roommate’s father.
According to the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office, around 3 a.m. Thursday, dispatchers received a call that a man was knocking on the front door of a home on Exodus Way.
When the District 5 Patrol officers arrived, they found Edwin Barber on the front porch with a stab wound to his chest.
Investigators quickly learned Barber had been stabbed at his home down the street and had run to his neighbor’s house for help.
When officers went to Barber’s house, they found Savannah Barber inside a bedroom with multiple stab wounds, and then found Cole with multiple stab wounds on the porch of another house.
Savannah Barber and Cole died before they could receive medical attention. Edwin Barber died at the hospital, police said.
A neighbor captured video that shows blood smeared on a porch, door, and doorbell.
Anyone with information about the stabbing is asked to call JSO at 904-630-0500 or CrimeStoppers at 1-866-845-TIPS.