JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – A 29-year-old man who has been charged in a triple shooting on Jacksonville’s Northside that killed his 4-year-old daughter and critically injured his 2-year-old daughter and the girls’ mother, will appear before a judge on Thursday.
The Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office said that officers responded Tuesday afternoon to a home on Traci Lynn Drive and found a 27-year-old woman and her two young girls suffering gunshot wounds.
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The woman’s 4-year-old daughter died at the scene. She and her toddler daughter were taken to local hospitals with life-threatening injuries. No update has been released on their condition since the shooting.
Investigators said they learned that Trudale Reed, the girls’ father, was arguing outside the home with the girls’ mother and then fired multiple rounds, hitting her and their two daughters before driving off in a stolen SUV.
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 found Reed and stopped him using a vehicle block. They took him into custody without incident, and he was taken 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.
He was booked into the Duval County Pre-Trial Detention Center on Tuesday night and is scheduled to make his first appearance before a judge on Thursday morning.
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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 has also been arrested twice in Duval County for domestic battery — once in 2022 and in July 2025, but those charges were later dropped, records showed.