A 49-year-old man was arrested Sunday afternoon on charges of murder and arson after authorities say he intentionally set fire to a Springfield home. Julius Lindo also faces eight counts of attempted murder in connection with the Friday blaze that killed 62-year-old Willie Haywood Jr.<\/p>\n
Jacksonville Sheriff\u2019s Office patrol officers arrived to assist the Jacksonville Fire and Rescue Department with the house fire just before midnight on Friday. Once the fire was extinguished, investigators discovered the body of Haywood inside the home.<\/p>\n
Detectives with the Jacksonville Sheriff\u2019s Office Homicide Unit and the State Fire Marshal\u2019s Office conducted a joint investigation into the cause of the fire.<\/p>\n
>>> STREAM ACTION NEWS JAX LIVE <<<<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n After interviewing multiple witnesses, investigators determined that Lindo intentionally set the residence on fire while nine people were inside.<\/p>\n Lindo was found on Sunday and taken into custody for an interview with investigators, police said. Following the interview, he was arrested and charged with one count of murder for the death of Haywood and one count of arson. He faces an additional eight counts of attempted murder, with each count representing one person who was inside the home when the fire began.<\/p>\n [DOWNLOAD: <\/b>Free Action News Jax app for alerts as news breaks<\/b><\/a>]<\/b><\/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":"A 49-year-old man was arrested Sunday afternoon on charges of murder and arson after authorities say he intentionally…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":359282,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5136],"tags":[5229,38007,3188,723,8340,7310,7340,262837,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,262838],"class_list":["post-612771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-america","tag-attempted-murder","tag-fl","tag-florida","tag-house-fire","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-fire-and-rescue-department","tag-julius-lindo","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa","tag-willie-haywood"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116125670227650246","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612771","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=612771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612771\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/359282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=612771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=612771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=612771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}