'Leave no witnesses': Neighbor's 911 call about knock on his door leads cops to find 3 stabbing victims after man fled his attacker and looked for help, deputies say

A sound connected a Florida man's doorway led instrumentality enforcement to the gruesome find of 3 radical who had been fatally stabbed, authorities say.

Austin Fisher, 30, is charged with the murders of 27-year-old Savannah Barber, 49-year-old Edwin Barber, and 37-year-old Shad Cole, the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office announced connected Friday. The suspect was arrested and taken into custody this week.

On Thursday, a antheral called the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office's Communications Center and said "a antheral was knocking connected his beforehand door." Patrol officers arrived astatine the determination to a harrowing sight.

"They recovered 49-year-old Edwin Barber connected the beforehand structure with a stab coiled to his chest," the sheriff's bureau said. "We learned Barber had been stabbed astatine his location down the thoroughfare and ran to his neighbor's location for help."

When officers went to the victim's house, they recovered Savannah Barber "inside a chamber with aggregate stab wounds." And arsenic they searched the neighborhood, deputies located Cole "with aggregate stab wounds connected the structure of different house."

Savannah Barber and Cole were some pronounced dormant "before they could person aesculapian attention." Edwin Barber was brought to a hospital, wherever helium aboriginal died.

"She did not merit this, oregon my husband, oregon adjacent Shad, immoderate of them," Amy Barber, Savannah Barber's ma and Edwin Barber's wife, told section CBS affiliate WJAX. "I was told that the archetypal statement started implicit $600 that was supposedly missing."

The pistillate said Fisher lived successful the backmost shed of her husband's property. She besides reportedly said she learned Fisher waited until everyone was slumber to stab them.

"After helium did what helium did, Savannah was inactive alive," Amy Barber added. "He went backmost and helium would not permission nary witnesses. That's wherefore helium killed her due to the fact that helium didn't privation nary witnesses left."

She alleged that Fisher past paid idiosyncratic $100 to telephone Uber for him and "told that idiosyncratic what he'd did. Told the Uber operator what helium did."

The sheriff's bureau did not springiness a imaginable motive for the stabbings. Deputies did accidental that, with assistance from assemblage residents, they identified Fisher arsenic their fishy and learned helium was hiding astatine a adjacent motel.

The suspect is present down bars without bond.