{"id":63974,"date":"2025-07-14T04:35:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-14T04:35:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/63974\/"},"modified":"2025-07-14T04:35:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-14T04:35:09","slug":"residents-talk-safety-after-masked-man-approaches-jacksonville-homes-wielding-two-knives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/63974\/","title":{"rendered":"Residents talk safety after masked man approaches Jacksonville homes wielding two knives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">JACKSONVILLE, N.C. (WITN) &#8211; Residents in one Jacksonville neighborhood are warning others to stay vigilant after a masked man was caught on camera wielding two knives. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">According to the Carolina Forest Community Services Association\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/CarolinaForestCSA\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/CarolinaForestCSA\">facebook page<\/a>, a masked man was approaching multiple homes Friday night into Saturday morning. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">In the video, the man looks to be wielding two knives as he gets to the door, but doesn\u2019t stay for long after the doorbell whistle seems to startle him.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Ray Lane, who lives in the neighborhood but works at the Duplin County Sheriff\u2019s Office, says he tends to keep a close eye on things and agrees that it\u2019s unusual to see.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cSo normally at night, I take the flashlight out, drive slow to look at the house and see if anyone\u2019s walking,\u201d Ray said. \u201cYou rarely see anybody out here walking, that\u2019s the first time for us, and that\u2019s a big concern.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Lyndia Lane says the situation makes her glad to have surveillance, but that it\u2019s still worrisome.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cSo glad that we have cameras up, and I hope that they catch up soon, he could be dangerous to anyone, you know, especially the children that are out in their yards,\u201d Lyndia said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">WITN spoke with Jacksonville police about the post, and they said that officers did handle a call for suspicious activity. Officials say there was a report taken and documented but they are still in the early investigation stages into what happened. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Anyone with information can contact JPD\u2019s non-emergency line at 910-938-7585.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2025 WITN. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JACKSONVILLE, N.C. (WITN) &#8211; Residents in one Jacksonville neighborhood are warning others to stay vigilant after a masked&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":63975,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5136],"tags":[5229,3188,723,7310,7207,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,36907],"class_list":{"0":"post-63974","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jacksonville","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-fl","10":"tag-florida","11":"tag-jacksonville","12":"tag-police","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-united-states-of-america","15":"tag-unitedstates","16":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","17":"tag-us","18":"tag-usa","19":"tag-witn"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114849731263986437","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63974","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=63974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63974\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}