Death toll rises in New Year’s Eve triple shooting in Keystone Heights area

CLAY COUNTY, Fla. — UPDATE 2/7/2020: According to Clay County court documents, suspect Taylor Hill has been indicted on first-degree murder charges.

UPDATE 9:45 p.m.: According to the Clay County Sheriff’s Office, James Wooten, one of the victim’s of Tuesday night’s triple shooting in Keystone Heights, has died. Wooten was shot in the head on New Years Eve and was showing no brain activity Thursday morning. His son, Shayne Wooten, was shot in the stomach and is recovering.

UPDATE, 1/2/2020: Action News Jax reporter has uncovered several updates in a New Year’s Eve shooting that killed Liza Dukes, a local mom of three, and injured two other people:

• Taylor Hill, 22, who was arrested in connection to the shooting, was on the run after cutting off his ankle monitor from a previous crime. The Clay County Sheriff’s Office said Hill was involved in shooting death of Liza Dukes, a local mom of three.
• Court documents show Hill was evicted in early December for allegedly cooking meth in someone’s home. He was given permission to move and ordered to report to the parole office. The next day, alarms from the bracelet sounded and it was determined he cut it off and left it on side of road
• James Wooten, one victim who was shot in the head, now has no brain activity, Action News Jax has learned. Another victim, Shayne Wooten, was shot in the stomach.

Original story below:

One person is dead and two others are hurt after a shooting on New Year’s Eve in the Keystone Heights area, according to the Clay County Sheriff’s Office.

The shooting happened around 11 p.m. at a home in the 4300 block of Lori Loop Road.

When deputies arrived to the area, the Sheriff’s Office said they found three people that had been shot. Two people were taken to the hospital and the other person was pronounced dead in the area.

A family told Action News Jax the person killed in the shooting was 29-year-old Liza Dukes, a local mother of three.

Action News Jax also confirmed Shayne Wooten was injured during the shooting.

At 12:45 a.m., CCSO said in a social media post that two people are in custody in connection with the shooting, after a short car pursuit in Bradford County.

Action News Jax dug through Clay County’s jail log and found two people arrested for crimes on Lori Loop Road Tuesday night.

Wednesday, CCSO confirmed that Victoria Scifo and Taylor Hill were arrested in connection to the shooting.

Records show Hill, 22, and Scifo, 20, were just released from Florida prisons in September.

Hill did seven years for burglary and dealing in stolen property, and GPS monitoring was required of him.

Scifo did nearly two years for stealing a car and running from police, among other charges.

A witness who said she was there during the shooting recounted hearing upwards of ten shots fired in the home and in the street.

“As I was walking, I heard guns go off, and then I heard them holler out, ‘Call 911, I’ve been shot!'” she said.

“[Wooten’s girlfriend] was lying there already gone, and I heard more gunshots out at the road, and I hid for a second, ran back out there- when the car went by- and his daddy was lying on the ground shot in the head,” she said.

Wednesday, friends of the victim came to the home. They said these kind of crimes don’t happen here.

“Out here, it’s unheard of,” one man said. “These people aren’t used to this out here.”

The Sheriff’s Office said it will release more information on the incident as soon as it becomes available.

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