Navy sailor unloaded 30 shots at his roommates after they 'started jumping' his wife on their front lawn: Deputies

A Navy sailor is accused of firing dozens of shots astatine his roommates aft they got into an statement with his wife astatine their bluish Florida home.

Taylor Lomax, 22, has been charged with 2 counts of execution implicit the deaths of Jordyn Forrestier, 20, and Noely Makenda, 21, the Clay County Sheriff's Office announced.

Both victims were besides Navy sailors and lived with Lomax.

On Wednesday, astatine astir 11 p.m., the 3 roommates were astatine their location connected the 4400 artifact of Hanging Moss Drive successful Clay County. The country is located conscionable southwest of Jacksonville. Lomax's woman was besides astatine the location "and began arguing with his roommates," the instrumentality enforcement bureau said.

The statement "escalated" connected the beforehand gait of the residence and became a "physical fight." At immoderate point, Lomax pulled retired a weapon and "fired astir 30 rounds, shooting some victims respective times," authorities said.

Lomax's woman past called 911.

Deputies responded to the location astatine astir 11:20 p.m. and discovered 2 dormant women successful the beforehand yard, some appearing to person been changeable aggregate times. Lomax and his woman were inactive there, and they were some taken into custody.

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According to section CBS affiliate WJAX, a pistillate who claimed to beryllium Lomax's woman approached their newsman during a newscast and said her hubby was protecting her and acting successful self-defense erstwhile helium changeable the different women. She suggested the roommates didn't similar her and hinted they would bushed her up.

"I got retired of my furniture and said 'Everyone has to get out.' So erstwhile I said everyone has to get out, I came out, retired connected the telephone with my momma," the pistillate detailed. "I said 'y'all person been disrespecting maine successful my house, y'all person to go.'"

She past alleged that Makenda deed her successful the face, and she deed her back.

The pistillate added: "We got to fighting, that's erstwhile Jordyn jumped successful and they started jumping me. That's erstwhile my hubby fired shots."

Lomax made an archetypal tribunal quality connected Friday, and helium is being detained successful jailhouse without bond.

The suspect is expected to look successful tribunal again connected Jan. 20, 2026.