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Police gather evidence at Jacksonville home after body found

9:55 P.M. MONDAY UPDATE: The charges for man involved in the SWAT standoff on Friday have been upgraded to murder.

ORIGINAL STORY: 

Jacksonville officers gathered evidence at a Sandalwood home Saturday, the day after a body was found during a SWAT callout.

Jacksonville Sheriff's Office was called to the home on Cavalry Boulevard at 2:30 p.m. Friday after a man threatened to hurt himself and refused to come out of his house.

Police and SWAT team members blocked the Sandalwood neighborhood for four hours before he surrendered.

"He finally opened the door, came out and fell down to the ground by himself," Dorothy Farabee said.

Police said the man was taken into custody and brought to a hospital.

They said a body was found on the property during the standoff, but officers have not identified it or the man taken into custody.

Court records show a man and woman who live at the home are going through a divorce and have a 9-year-old son.

"We’ve seen them playing catch outside. We never would have thought," Farabee said.

JSO said the child was safe with family.

A man with the same name as the listed homeowner -- the man neighbors tell Action News Jax was taken into custody -- was booked at the Duval County Jail Saturday on a tampering with evidence charge.

Action News Jax reached out to JSO to try to confirm that the man in the jail log is the man who was taken into custody.

"You don’t expect something like this in your neighborhood and we didn’t," neighbor Cal Walton said.

He said he and the couple are original homeowners in the neighborhood and have lived there for almost 15 years.

He said the man seemed happy the last time he spoke with him.

"It was a little difficult to be out here working in the yard knowing that at one time or another on Saturday I could look across the way and see him doing the same thing," Walton said. "Cutting the grass. And hes not. There’s police cars out there."