{"id":882609,"date":"2026-06-21T11:30:48","date_gmt":"2026-06-21T11:30:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/882609\/"},"modified":"2026-06-21T11:30:48","modified_gmt":"2026-06-21T11:30:48","slug":"neighbor-reacts-after-woman-was-grabbed-by-man-in-jennings-state-forest-action-news-jax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/882609\/","title":{"rendered":"Neighbor reacts after woman was grabbed by man in Jennings State Forest \u2013 Action News Jax"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 jsuuLb body-paragraph\">CLAY COUNTY, Fla. \u2014 As of Tuesday night, a man who grabbed a woman while walking her dog in Jennings State Forest is still on the loose. The Clay County Sheriff\u2019s office says it happened Tuesday morning, and they searched the area for hours.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 jsuuLb body-paragraph\">Donna Hamry, a neighbor who lives near the forest, told Action News Jax she usually feels safe in that area. She says it\u2019s normal for people to run in Jennings and walk their dogs on the trail this woman was on.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 jsuuLb body-paragraph\">She says she\u2019s surprised this happened and even more surprised about how much the woman was able to remember about the man who grabbed her.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 jsuuLb body-paragraph\">This is the description the victim gave to Clay County deputies:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>White male in his late 40s<\/li>\n<li>Approximately 6 feet tall<\/li>\n<li>Medium build, between 200 and 215 pounds<\/li>\n<li>Gray salt and pepper beard with little or no mustache<\/li>\n<li>Scruffy hair<\/li>\n<li>Yellow teeth<\/li>\n<li>Strong, musty odor<\/li>\n<li>Wearing dark long-sleeved shirt that had a small graphic on the chest<\/li>\n<li>Dark jeans or pants<\/li>\n<li>Hiking boots<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 jsuuLb body-paragraph\">\u201cFright because people they do go to Jennings Forest a lot,\u201d said Hamry. This was her reaction when she heard about what happened. She\u2019s lived in the area for 35 years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 jsuuLb body-paragraph\">\u201cShe did not know this man, she was not injured and the dog that she had apparently scared the man off,\u201d Sheriff Michelle Cook said in a Facebook live update Tuesday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 jsuuLb body-paragraph\">Sheriff Cook says the woman ran and called 911. Deputies searched the area for hours, found the woman\u2019s backpack and sent a K9 that came up with nothing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 jsuuLb body-paragraph\">\u201cWe have all indication that this woman experienced this scary situation,\u201d Sheriff Cook said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 jsuuLb body-paragraph\">She says the victim is working with them to create a composite picture of the suspect. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 jsuuLb body-paragraph\">Hamry says she hopes the Sheriff\u2019s Office can track the man down.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 jsuuLb body-paragraph\">\u201cMaybe he got frightened so badly from her and her dog that he won\u2019t do it again,\u201d Hamry said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 jsuuLb body-paragraph\">Neighbors told Action News Jax they saw helicopters and several police cars in the area throughout the day. A spokesperson for the Clay County Sheriff\u2019s Office says they hope that the composite photo will be finished tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 jsuuLb body-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.actionnewsjax.com\/live-breaking\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.actionnewsjax.com\/live-breaking\/\" target=\"_blank\"><b>&gt;&gt;&gt; STREAM ACTION NEWS JAX LIVE &lt;&lt;&lt;<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 jsuuLb body-paragraph\"><b>[DOWNLOAD: <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.actionnewsjax.com\/mobile-apps\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><b>Free Action News Jax app for alerts as news breaks<\/b><\/a><b>]<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 jsuuLb body-paragraph\"><b>[SIGN UP: <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/membercenter.actionnewsjax.com\/newsletters\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><b>Action News Jax Daily Headlines Newsletter<\/b><\/a><b>] <\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 jsuuLb body-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.actionnewsjax.com\/mobile-apps\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><b>Click here<\/b><\/a><b> to download the free Action News Jax news and weather apps, <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.actionnewsjax.com\/mobile-apps\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><b>click here<\/b><\/a><b> to download the Action News Jax Now app for your smart TV and <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.actionnewsjax.com\/video\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><b>click here<\/b><\/a><b> to stream Action News Jax live.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Action News Jax Top Stories<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CLAY COUNTY, Fla. \u2014 As of Tuesday night, a man who grabbed a woman while walking her dog&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":882610,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5136],"tags":[198207,5229,32135,12882,3059,358477,1066,3188,723,358479,326199,7310,300703,358476,358475,188935,358480,425,358478,12498,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":["post-882609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-action_new_shacks","tag-america","tag-clay","tag-clay_county_sheriffs_office","tag-county","tag-donna_hammery","tag-facebook","tag-fl","tag-florida","tag-hamry","tag-jack_jasmine_butler","tag-jacksonville","tag-jasmine_butler","tag-jennings_forest","tag-jennings_state_forest","tag-k-9","tag-lake_county_sheriffs_office","tag-local","tag-michelle_kuts","tag-sheriff","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116787873539337695","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/882609","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=882609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/882609\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/882610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=882609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=882609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=882609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}