JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – On Monday, a 17-year-old boy was taken into custody and charged with killing two people in Jacksonville in March.
The Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office says that on March 1, two men were shot and killed in an apartment on Fort Caroline Road.
JSO said that proof and statements pointed to Darien Mixson as the person who shot and killed the people.
Mixson, who was already in jail for other charges, was served with an arrest warrant on Monday.
JSO said in March that the Ribault High School student was facing multiple charges related to the shooting. These included car theft and having a gun while being a minor offender.
JSO said it used GPS and a K-9 to find Mixson, who was suspected of taking a car from the scene of a crime.
A witness inside the apartment called 911, according to the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office. A family member told News4JAX that when cops came, they found Craivon Aiken and another guy dead.
Craig Aiken said that since he found out on Wednesday that his son Craivon had died, the days have been cloudy and it’s been hard for him to deal with reality.
He said it’s hard to know that one of his children is no longer with him, especially since he only saw his daughter Kamiyah Mobley again six years ago, 18 years after she was taken from a Jacksonville hospital right after she was born in 1998.
Craig Aiken said that Craivon Aiken was the youngest of eight children. He also said that Craivon had two children of his own.
Craig Aiken talked to News4JAX after JSO said Mixson was charged with killing his son.
“At the end of the day, three kids’ lives are still gone because of this, and I don’t know why,” he said.
Aiken’s father says that the two people who died were best friends since childhood. He also says that he doesn’t know everything about the case, but he knows one thing for sure.
“The suspect was with them in the house. My son was sleeping. “He killed him while he was sleeping,” he said.
Craig Aiken said that even though Craivon Aiken was younger than Mobley, he treated her like a little sister once the family was reunited with her.
He also said that he wants to help make sure that other families don’t go through the same thing.
“We have to keep an eye on our kids, talk to them, and try to understand them because they need us to save them.
I hope that my story can help the next child, whether that child is the next shooter or the next person to be shot. Still, kids are dying out here,” he said.
News4JAX also met the suspect’s grandma and asked her about her grandson’s alleged crimes, but she said she was too upset to say anything.
Police say they don’t know what led to the killing, but it’s still early in the case.
