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Edward Buckhanon was found guilty of felony battery by a Duval County jury on January 14 and now faces up to five years in Florida State Prison.<\/p>\n
State Attorney Melissa W. Nelson announced the verdict, detailing the incident that occurred on March 19, 2024, when Buckhanon attacked his neighbor with a pipe after an argument about a fence.<\/p>\n
After moving into the neighborhood, the victim experienced repeated harassment from Buckhanon, who was her next-door neighbor, prompting her to build a privacy fence between their homes.<\/p>\n
>>> STREAM ACTION NEWS JAX LIVE <<<<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n The harassment escalated on the day of the incident, when Buckhanon confronted her and her neighbors while they were fixing the fence.<\/p>\n During the confrontation, Buckhanon yelled racial slurs at the victim and her neighbors. He then retrieved a metal pipe from his home and swung it at the victim, striking her and fracturing her arm in several places.<\/p>\n She was subsequently taken to the hospital and underwent surgery for her injuries.<\/p>\n [DOWNLOAD: <\/b>Free Action News Jax app for alerts as news breaks<\/b><\/a>]<\/b><\/p>\n The case was investigated by the Jacksonville Sheriff\u2019s Office, and prosecutors Michael Eckhart and Fabrizia Wade handled the case at trial.<\/p>\n The Honorable Mark Borello will determine Buckhanon\u2019s sentence at a later date.<\/p>\n Buckhanon faces a potential sentence of up to five years in prison for his actions as he awaits sentencing from Judge Borello.<\/p>\n [SIGN UP: <\/b>Action News Jax Daily Headlines Newsletter<\/b><\/a>] <\/b><\/p>\n Click here<\/b><\/a> to download the free Action News Jax news and weather apps, <\/b>click here<\/b><\/a> to download the Action News Jax Now app for your smart TV and <\/b>click here<\/b><\/a> to stream Action News Jax live.<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Edward Buckhanon was found guilty of felony battery by a Duval County jury on January 14 and now…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":533254,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5136],"tags":[5229,236234,54770,3188,723,236235,7310,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":["post-533253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-america","tag-edward-buckhanon","tag-felony-battery","tag-fl","tag-florida","tag-florida-state-prison","tag-jacksonville","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115935699651802404","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=533253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533253\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/533254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=533253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=533253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=533253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}