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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (Aug. 13, 2026) — Nationally renowned civil rights and personal injury attorney Ben Crump has been retained by the family of Asia Bennett, a 22-year-old woman who was shot and killed by a Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office (JSO) officer Tuesday night after officers responded to a domestic call in Arlington.
According to JSO, officers were called to a home around 10:45 p.m. Tuesday for a report of a battery with injuries. Bennett was shot twice by the first officer to arrive. The agency says she came outside holding a kitchen knife and moved toward that officer, and its account describes an encounter that began and ended before a backup officer reached the scene. Bennett died at a hospital. JSO has not released the body-camera footage. It says this is the department’s 13th officer-involved shooting this year.
Bennett’s mother, Crissy Duncan, has said publicly that her daughter was a victim of domestic violence and weighed 110 pounds. Hours after the shooting, JSO told reporters that Bennett had been arrested in April on charges involving the same boyfriend. In a disposition notice filed May 11, an assistant state attorney in the State Attorney’s Special Victims Unit wrote that after reviewing the evidence, she was declining to prosecute Bennett. Attorneys for the family say the officer who wrote the April report was later reprimanded.
The State Attorney’s Office is investigating, with a JSO use-of-force review to follow. Attorney Crump and the family are calling on JSO to release all body-camera footage, 911 calls, and dispatch records, and to say whether Bennett’s boyfriend has been interviewed and whether the agency can locate him.
Attorney Crump released the following statement:
“Asia Bennett was 22 years old and weighed just 110 pounds. She is dead, and the only account the public has comes from the agency whose officer fired the shots. Within hours, that agency was at a podium talking about an arrest from April. The State Attorney’s own Special Victims Unit read that evidence and refused to prosecute Asia.
“The body-camera footage and the 911 calls can show whether there was any way this ended with Asia alive. Release them. “This family deserves justice and truth. They will not accept a version of events they are asked to take on faith.”
