JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – The Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office released the identity of a man accused in the triple shooting of a mother and their two children on Thursday.
On Tuesday afternoon, officers responded to a home on Traci Lynn Drive on the city’s Northside. Officers found a 27-year-old woman and two young children had been shot.
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A 4-year-old girl died at the scene. A 2-year-old girl and the woman were transported to local hospitals with life-threatening injuries.
Investigators determined a dispute broke out between 29-year-old Trudale Reed, who is the children’s father, and the woman outside the home. During the dispute, Reed fired multiple rounds, striking the woman and both girls before leaving in a stolen SUV, JSO said.
Detectives from JSO’s Homicide Unit responded to the scene and took over the investigation. Investigators quickly identified Reed as the shooter and issued a BOLO — be on the lookout — with a description of the vehicle.
Members of JSO’s Community Problem Response Team located Reed and stopped him using a vehicle block, detaining him without incident. He was transported to a local hospital with minor injuries.
Reed faces charges of second-degree murder, attempted first-degree murder, attempted second-degree murder, shooting into an occupied dwelling, auto theft, aggravated fleeing and eluding, and possession of a firearm by a convicted felon.
Reed was booked into the Duval County Pre-Trial Detention Center Tuesday night.
According to past court records, Reed served time in prison from 2016 to 2019 for robbery with a deadly weapon stemming from an incident in 2015 when he was 19 years old.
He also has been arrested twice in Duval County for domestic battery — once in 2022 and in July 2025, but those charges were later dropped, records showed.